Lucy Mullican “Sensed As Well As Seen”
Olympia
[Image: Lucy Mullican "Home" (2021) watercolor on board, 10 x 8 in.]
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Olympia presents Sensed As Well As Seen, Lucy Mullican’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Mullican immerses herself in mediums of permanence and transience in found objects, embroidery, photography, painting and drawings done with natural homemade and artisanal pigments. Her curiosity is rooted in nature: land, water, and sky, from which she abstracts elements that intuitively evolve into familiar shapes, recalling existence and the soul.
Her project is to find one’s place in the world through stories imagined in the personality of objects and our fleeting relationship to them: the vanishing photograph, the color of natural dyes on surfaces that light will take back; the imprint of feet walking the earth washed by water, the time of day on a hillside, the stillness of an empty house—histories that constantly connect us to the world, the continuum of the past, present and future, the balance of fragility, spirit and strength.
January 22 2022
What am I looking at
When I am walking the ground where others leave their mark
The soul of the foot
Our individual print
Is left behind
Cemented in the city forever
Who are they
I will not see them
I am to where they have walked
I see a single shoe
Where is its pair
How did they lose each other
They are ghosts
Lying on the ground
Far from the soul and spirit
That housed them
Make a painting on slate
Roof tiles
Protecting the inside from the outside
They are from the ground
Getting closer to the sky
A relic
I see how each one has a presence
Their own personality
Using minerals
Natural things we pass by but cant see
Colors from the earth
That will not last
Paint the sky
Mountain
Water
Tree
Ground
These living images
That light will take back
Fade away
Are they part of an island
A place where we all go
We are all on our own island
That connects us
Through the water
It is getting smaller and smaller
- Lucy Mullican
Lucy Mullican (b. 1994) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. Since 2014, Mullican has participated in several group exhibitions in New York, Glasgow and Edinburgh, notably the two-person exhibition, RiverRun at Richard Demarco Archive in Edinburgh, Scotland July, 2019, and Social Photography, at Carriage Trade, New York, August, 2021. She also participated in the artist residency program at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida in May 2021. Sensed As Well As Seen at Olympia is Mullican’s first solo exhibition in New York City.
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Schedule
from March 31, 2022 to May 21, 2022
Opening Reception on 2022-03-31 from 18:00 to 20:00