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The drawings completed between 2002-2004 are built up
with rich layers of acrylic paint, watercolor, oilstick,
graphite, pencil, and wax. Through the process of
drawing I have encountered issues of time, velocity, and
motion. As the forms in my drawings began to suggest
domed, hermetic environments, science fiction and
architectural elements emerged. These discoveries have
led me into unexpected terrain such as astronomy,
molecular biology, and physics. These are subjects of
which I have no detailed knowledge or understanding, but
rather an intuitive grasp of associative visual
vocabularies – allowing me to craft my own personal
universe through the transformational act of drawing.
In my more recent work, I am searching
for a personal pictorial language to concretize memory,
dreams, and felt experience. My subconscious is allowed
to play an integral role in the mark-making process.
Automatic gesture, immediate impulse, experiment and
chance become important elements in my personal response
to materials. Paintings and drawings are cut, torn and
recycled as collage elements in an ongoing , open-ended
dialogue between impulse and
refinement.
Michael Mullaney 2007
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