Daniel Mullen

Daniel Mullen

Rotterdam based abstract architectural painter, Daniel Mullen, was born in Glasgow, Scotland 1985. He graduated in 2011 with a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Mullen has exhibited internationally; London, Vancouver, New York, Sao Paulo and his work is currently on show at the Oscar Neiymer Museum, as part of the Biennale de Curritiba in Brazil. His work has also been acquired by notable private and corporate collections. He was recently shortlisted for the Aesthetica art Prize.


By applying glazed layers in combination with hard-edge painted lines, Mullen creates layered images that figuratively communicate abstract concepts. When creating illusionistic forms he can, to some degree, illustrate an abstract idea or phenomenon, turning abstraction on its head. Driven by a sense that abstract art does not simply reproduce perceived outward reality but can be instead a transference of that which lies beyond our visual comprehension. It’s an artistic form -- if one follows Kandinsky's take -- that is the result of “an inner necessity”. Mullen creates a complex affect that manages to suggest the incarnation of something grand and vast yet also perhaps just that; a suggestion and not a reality. An illusion, and not the truth. As a devoted craftsman who meticulously creates all of his work without digital or mechanical aids, he still manages to create the impression of reproducibility, which is precisely what he seeks to highlight in an era of mass consumption.

 

The work of Daniel Mullen is represented worldwide and is part of numerous international collections.

 

Representation: 
Frank Taal Galerie              Rotterdam, NL
Kogan Amaro Gallery        Sao Paulo, BR  Zurich, CH
Elan Fine art                          Vancouver, CA 
Gray Contemporary           Houston, US
Marian Cramer Projects   Amsterdam, NL

 

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Portfolio Art Rotterdam 2020

HIGHLIGHTS

 

 

 

Art Rotterdam 2020 - Frank Taal Galerie

 

 

Art Rotterdam 2020 - Frank Taal Galerie

 

 

Solo exhibition In A Realm of Luminescence at Elan Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada September - November 2019

 

 

 

 

 

The Frankies Choice #2 - December 2019 - Frank Taal Galerie

 

 

Solo exhibition In A Realm of Luminescence at Elan Fine Art, Vancouver, Canada September - November 2019

 

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