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8/10/2003

Paul Mullins

Lyons Wier, New York

Contemporary art has enjoyed a dynamic resurgence in figure painting. When looking at the work of Paul Mullins one thinks immediately of the British School: Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and Jenny Saville. However, the similarities cease once the viewer digests Mullins' astonishingly powerful painting technique and become entangled in his brutish, personal and often humorous narratives.

Often referencing his West Virginia central Appalachian upbringing, the work is injected with a considerable dose of "redneck" posturing. Junkyard and American muscle cars, monster trucks, barnyard animals, and hapless yet content faces form the cluster of imagery and energy in his work. Mullins states, "The work is encoded with a certain cultural policy that has no useful application outside of the position and place of my origin. I wanted to couple the absurdity of that, with imagery that smacked of the quixotic. The images are quasi pictorial compost-heaps of our continual investment in romantic hopes and the pursuit of base desires."

Paul Mullins was born in 1970 in Charleston, West Virginia. He received a BFA from Marshall University in Huntington in 1992. He accepted a full scholarship and teaching assistantship from Ohio University graduating with his MFA in 1994. He moved to Chicago in 1996. During 1998 and 1999, he spent four months in Miami Beach as a recipient of a National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts Fellowship. This grant culminated in a show at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., which included Sean Mellny and Elizabeth Cheatham. Mullins moved from Chicago to San Francisco in 2001 to accept a tenured faculty position at San Francisco State University. This is Mullins' second solo exhibition at lyonswiergallery.

Artist's Reception: Thursday, October 9, 6-8PM

Exhibition dates: October 2 - November 1

lyonswiergallery
511 W 25 St #205 NYC 10001
212.242.6220 f:212.242.6238

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