Rotterdam-based painter, Daniel Mullen, was born in Glasgow, Scotland 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. How might our visual and emotional sensitivities be shifting as we find ourselves flowing between our physical environment and the techno-sphere, aided in part by back-lit digital devices?
With his work, Mullen aim’s to question these shifting modes of perception through dialectical compositions, and expressions of color light, and darkness. That results in works that might appear as digital renderings however upon closer inspection reveal the materiality by which they are constructed. A time-consuming craftsmanship that does not seek binary perfection, but rather embraces nuisance, imperfection, and materiality.
Of Voids and Portals (Group Show)
A group exhibition focusing on modes of perception through a group of abstract practicioners.
Art Rotterdam Presentation (DUO)
Isabelle Borges, and myself are collaborating on a dou stand presentation. This presentation has come about through multiple conversation with the idea to have a visual conversation through the interaction of our works.
CA$H’23 (Group Show)
Group Exhibition
Colour of Sound (Group Show)
The Color of Sound explores the relationship between art and synesthetic experience. It features artwork by artists who are synesthetes—who experience synesthesia, the phenomenon by which certain people experience one sense through another—as well as work by artists who, though not synesthetes, seek to create synesthetic experiences for viewers. Synesthesia can take a wide variety of forms (perceiving letters or numbers as colors, for example. Curated by Courtney Gilbert. SVMOA, US
LICKING BLACKBERRY JAM FROM YOUR FRONT TEETH (Group Show)
A group exhibition: curated by, Fabiola Burgos, Yue Yuan, Paz Ortuzar
with the following artist
Marlene Elgueta, Iván Krassoievitch, Alejandra López & Lena Longefay, José Pedro Godoy, Ricardo Alcaide, Felipe Muhr, SAPLAB, Jorge Tacla, Felipe Mujica, Yue Yuan, Fabiola Burgos, Daniel Mullen
(IN)VISIBLE WITHIN (SOLO)
Residency - research trip
A six-week residency Which gave myself time to research the color and light of the city, whilst producing works on paper in preparation for my solo show (In)Visible Within, in Sao Paulo, I spent my time specifically looking at the buildings by architect Luis Barragan.
CATCH 22’ (Group Show)
Worlds of Colour (Group Show)
Judy Pfaff, Soo Sunny Park, Martina A Muller, Laura Summer, Sampsa Pirtola & Daniel Mullen.
EPHEMERAL FIELDS (Solo)
“Field connotes a body or a realm, and ephemeral means a fleeting, transitory or a brief moment in time”, explains abstract painter Daniel Mullen, known for his play with geometrical optical illusion, spatial perspective and light, to refer to the multiple horizons in his present paintings. The body of work for the solo exhibition “Ephemeral Fields” by the Glasgow-born artist stems from the question “in what way might we imagine a future monument or the idea of a monument”. For the artist the m
Art Rotterdam
Chapter 3HREE
Curated by Maarten Spryut and Rieke Vos
In a Realm of Luminescence
SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS
For the Shifting Perceptions Mullen offers two new bodies of work that are comprised of both his ongoing investigations of synesthesia and his white series.
The synesthesia works explore the sensorial relationship between color and abstract concepts of time and space. The white series come from an interest in creating a framework for the imagination of the viewer in a reduced form, Mullen uses white paint on dark linen creating a space which is limited in means.