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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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. Selected solo-exhibitions include:. 1973 - Project Inc., Boston. 19... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (9)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Art at the Turn of the Millennium
1999
Larsen, Lars et all
561 pages (color)
The Dakis Joannou Collection
1996
Deitch, Jeffrey
302 pages (color)
The Paine Webber Art Collection
1995
Flam, Jack; Donald Marron
304 pages (color)
Visions of America Landscape as Metaphor in the Late 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Friedman, Martin (et al)
256 pages (color)
Word As Image American Art 1960-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Bowman, Russell/Dean Sobel
172 pages (color)
Blasted Allegories An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists