{"id":423493,"date":"2025-02-06T13:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=423493"},"modified":"2025-02-06T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:10:09","slug":"marlon-mullen-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/marlon-mullen-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"With a Show at MoMA, Marlon Mullen Paints Pictures That Are beyond Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/abstract-paintings\/marlon-mullen-desert-cactus\/id-a_5283622\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-950x757.jpeg\" alt=\"Marlon Mullen, Desert with Cactus, 1997\" class=\"wp-image-425010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-950x757.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-439x350.jpeg 439w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-120x96.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-768x612.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus-1170x933.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon_Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/abstract-paintings\/marlon-mullen-desert-cactus\/id-a_5283622\/\"><em>Desert with Cactus<\/em><\/a>, 1997, by Marlon Mullen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Marlon Mullen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/abstract-paintings\/marlon-mullen-desert-cactus\/id-a_5283622\/\"><em>Desert with Cactus<\/em><\/a> (1997) draws viewers into a landscape that\u2019s both familiar and unknowable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting\u2019s biomorphic forms \u2014 perhaps there\u2019s a cactus, perhaps a canyon, perhaps an adobe sweat lodge, maybe something else entirely \u2014 are rendered in thick layers of acrylic paint on paper. Mullen uses just four eye-catching colors, colliding in deep contrast: stark white, jet black, milk-chocolate brown and bubble-gum pink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ambiguity of the piece is part of its allure, leaving viewers to wonder: Is this a literal desert scene, one from the imaginal realm or an interpretation of a picture Mullen saw in a book or magazine?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/marlon-mullen\/art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-760x950.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of Marlon Mullen wearing a suit and gardening glovves.\" class=\"wp-image-425013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-760x950.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-280x350.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-96x120.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD-746x933.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen-portrait_Courtesy-of-the-Artist-and-NIAD.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of Mullen. Courtesy of the artist and NIAD<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne of the most captivating aspects of art is its ability to evoke mystery, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/marlon-mullen\/art\/\">Marlon Mullen<\/a> exemplifies this power through his work,\u201d says Jayson Lawfer, director of Chicago-based gallery <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/the-nevica-project\/\">The Nevica Project<\/a>, which is offering the piece on 1stDibs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in Richmond, California, in 1963, Mullen, who has autism spectrum disorder and is mostly nonspeaking, has carved out a singular niche in the contemporary art world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than three decades, he\u2019s been painting at the acclaimed <a href=\"https:\/\/niadart.org\/\">NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) Art Center<\/a>, a studio that supports all kinds of creators with neurodivergent diagnoses or disabilities. His work is in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, which featured one of his <a href=\"https:\/\/whitney.org\/exhibitions\/2019-biennial?section=56\">canvases in its 2019 Biennial<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-950x634.jpeg\" alt=\"An installation view of \u201cProjects: Marlon Mullen\u201d at the Museum of Modern Art in New York\" class=\"wp-image-425030\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-950x634.jpeg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-525x350.jpeg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-120x80.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1-1399x933.jpeg 1399w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/D2A9231_PRESS-2000x1334-1.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An installation view of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/5777\">Projects: Marlon Mullen<\/a>\u201d at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Photo by Jonathan Dorado<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Many of Mullen\u2019s compositions involve him selecting covers or interior pages from art magazines \u2014 <em>Artforum<\/em>, <em>Sculpture<\/em>, <em>Frieze<\/em> and so on \u2014 which he then reimagines in his own expressive style, rearranging, cropping, distorting and abstracting elements of the publications\u2019 layouts. (He even paints the spines of the magazines on the sides of the canvases.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This segment of his oeuvre is currently the focus of a solo show in the project space of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. On view through April 20, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/5777\">Projects: Marlon Mullen<\/a>\u201d spotlights a selection of his art-mag paintings from the past decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Complementing the bold artworks, the exhibition design includes soft gray carpeting and movable podlike seats manufactured to absorb sound, perfect for museumgoers who get overwhelmed by too much sensory input.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/paintings\/abstract-paintings\/marlon-mullen-desert-cactus\/id-a_5283622\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-950x950.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of Desert with Cactus, 1997, by Marlon Mullen\" class=\"wp-image-425024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-950x950.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-932x933.jpg 932w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail-216x216.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marlon-Mullen_Desert-With-Cactus_Detail.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A detail of <em>Desert with Cactus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>Desert with Cactus<\/em>, created early in Mullen\u2019s career, is more enigmatic in its content and meaning. \u201cMullen\u2019s art opens a space for contemplation,\u201d Lawfer says, \u201callowing us to explore the unknown dimensions of his work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painting speaks to the power of art to transcend words and conventional understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner-collection interstitial-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-background-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/20230509_160639_master-1000x300.webp\" class=\"attachment-interstitial size-interstitial\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container interstitial-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"interstitial-link-around-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/abstract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExplore More Abstract Art\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-subheading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gold-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/style\/abstract\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>View Now<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlon Mullen\u2019s Desert with Cactus (1997) draws viewers into a landscape that\u2019s both familiar and unknowable. 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