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Renowned for his immense
banners, posters, and oil stick rubbings, Matt Mullican
draws from a personal source of forms and symbols to create
his utopian city views. His sign-like works are reflections
of the familiar pictograms that the one would find in the
halls of airport and train stations. He is successful in
his attempt to depict an ideal city, or even world with
his use of signs and icons.
By 1980, he had developed
a formula for his art, breaking his pieces down into representational
blocks of color and transforming their scale. Mullican attended
the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia where he
studied with conceptual artist John Baldessari. Some of
his designs incorporate computer-generated images that he
presents in light boxes, giving his work dimension and a
sense of architecture.
Born
1951 Santa Monica, California
Lives
New York City
Education
1974 California Institute of Arts, Valencia, California
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1976 Artists Space, New York
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1984 Schellman and Kluser, Munich, West Germany
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1986 Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
1987 “Banners, Monuments and the City,”
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia (Catalogue)
1988 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1989 “Directions,” Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
1984 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1986 “Sacred Images in Secular Art,” Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
“Individuals: A Selected History of California Artists
1945-1986,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Emerging Artists,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary
Art, Ohio
1987 “L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La
Passion,” Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
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