Exploring the Relationship Between Portray and Pictures

Mullen’s work is being featured in an upcoming present at First Street Gallery, an artist-run house now in its fiftieth yr of staging exhibitions in New York City.

The exhibition, titled “Thresholds,” kicks off on October 29 and runs by November 22, 2025, with a gap reception being held on October 30. It is supported by a Faculty Research Award that Mullen acquired this previous spring.

 “I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to share my work in the middle of the exhibition season in such a dynamic setting,” says Mullen.

“Thresholds” consists primarily of work created within the final two years, he explains, with the addition of a number of earlier items that set the inspiration for this new work. The exhibition comprises eighteen completely different items, starting from sixteen by twelve inches as much as forty by sixty inches

Mullen says the present represents a extra refined give attention to points which have circulated in his work for the final decade. “He is drawn to photography’s capacity for both documentation and creating visual meaning, contrasting it with painting’s unique ability to embody accumulated experience, time, and the human touch,” says the gallery in a press release.

Now in his twenty-fifth yr at Bowdoin instructing within the visible arts division, Mullen has taught a variety of programs, with an emphasis on portray and drawing. He has acquired greater than twenty-five completely different awards, residencies, and fellowships, staged greater than twenty solo exhibitions, and took part in over eighty-five juried exhibitions since receiving tenure in 2006. He lives and works in Portland, Maine.