rwmullenix

Website

http://rwmullenix.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign

Program

MFA Painting

Graduation

May 15, 1990

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Painting

I am...

available via email:
rwmullenix@gmail.com

About my artwork

I repaint photocopies, even photocopies of photocopies. I like the irony of painting trees using them, referring to them. My images reflect dual interests in photography and painting. At times, they are revelations of emotional states. More frequently, they are the result of deliberations regarding the endeavor of painting itself—painting in the age of mechanical reproduction. The photograph is the basis for these images; it reflects a conceptual, as well as a physical distance from the subject matter, as we tend to experience the outdoors vicariously through the filter of media. Derived from photographs of trees, found in publication, and digitally manipulated, I enlarge these images emphasizing the dot-matrix. This is the basis for the final painting; the photographic image is repainted. The pixel dictates the brush mark; the color and light are invented. In keeping with these tensions, I investigate cool/warm, high key/low key contrasts. The result is that the final image is partially photographic, partially hand-rendered, and almost always pixilated--the photograph is translated into paint. The hand of the artist is subject to the mechanics of the photographic process. The photographic image is recreated and transformed by hand.

Artists I like

Manzu, Cameron Martin, Alan Rankle, Neil Welliver, Neil Jenney

Centre of the artworld:

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