Matt Mullican
Matt Mullican, born 1951 in Santa Monica, California, lives and works in New York. This conceptual artist thinks about thinking. From the very beginning, through his single-minded (though multifaceted) body of work he has tried to understand the process by which we consider reality. Over the last 25 years Mullican has developed a lexicon of stylized signs and images, a rich vocabulary which is simultaneously personal and generic. He has devised a variety of structures for the signs to organize our world and describe its systems and relationships. Underlying his work is an artistic concept encompassing, in a literal sense, a worldview. Every work, therefore, contains the complex logic of a universal form in which the meaning of the greater concept derives from the symbolic significance of the individual works that are based on language. Color is the organizing principle in Mullican´s cosmology, specifically red = subjective, black = language/sign, yellow = world framed (the arts), blue = the world unframed (unconscious), green = elements.
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