Scottish artist Daniel Mullen creates optically dazzling works using a process that includes the application of thin, translucent layers of paint on exposed linen. For Mullen, his technique is central to his concept.
Explore Daniel Mullen's art, where Illusionistic Abstraction shapes both paintings and sculptures. Influenced by Constructivism and the Bauhaus, Mullen’s work merges geometry, color, and light to create immersive, perception-challenging experiences.
Amsterdam-based painter, Daniel Mullen, was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1985. The question of sense perception is not limited to how we might perceive light, darkness, form, and color. We subsist in a precarious environment, in an era of mass digitization.
COLOR OF SOUND, Anne Patterson, Vance Kirkland, Mary Ellen Bute, Andy Akiho, Brad Johnson, Daniel Mullen with Lucy Cordes Engelman. Curated by Courtney Gilbert. Sun Valley Museum of Art, Idaho, US.
Scottish artist Daniel Mullen creates optically dazzling works using a process that includes the application of thin, translucent layers of paint on exposed linen. For Mullen, his technique is central to his concept.
The geometric compositions that Mullen creates in his paintings seem inherent to the digital world. However, rather than being examples of computer-made graphic perfection, these images are the result of a meticulous process of artistic creation.
The solo exhibition “Ephemeral Fields” by Daniel Mullen is his first at Kogan Amaro / Zürich. In 2019, the artist exhibited the solo “Colour Equation” at Kogan Amaro / São Paulo. The Swiss exhibition comprises of 23 paintings with an average size of 150 x140 cm, the largest being a 400 x 190 cm diptych.
The exhibition (In)Visible within, Daniel Mullen’s first solo show at Galeria Zipper, is about luminosity and its delicate and decisive relations with its surroundings. The refraction of light that establishes itself is discussed in a complementary manner within both environments that make up the artist’s exhibition at the space located in ...
Daniel Mullen's primal form is the rectangle, a basic geometric figure crucial to geometric theory and, in turn, abstract art. However, for this artist it is a fundamental form of his work and has been explored in different ways in his paintings and, more recently, in sculptures.