Lee Mullican

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Installation view, Lee Mullican, The Nest Revived, James Cohan, 52 Walker Street, January 12 - February 25, 2023

LEE MULLICAN

The Nest Revived, 1948

Oil on canvas

25 x 30 in.
63.5 x 76.2 cm

JCG14822

LEE MULLICAN

Untitled (The Owl), 1949

Oil on canvas

36 x 26 3/4 in.
91.4 x 68.0 cm

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LEE MULLICAN
Pink Nude in the West Field, 1949
Oil on canvas
37 x 27 in
94 x 68.6 cm

JCG14827

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1949
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 × 41 5/8 × 1 3/4 in.
80.3 × 105.7 × 4.4 cm

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LEE MULLICAN

Untitled, c. 1948

Oil on canvas

30 x 39 3/4 in.
76.2 x 101 cm

JCG14821

LEE MULLICAN
Kachinas, 1948
Oil on canvas
23 1/4 x 33 1/4 x 1 7/8 in.

59.1 x 84.5 x 4.8 cm

JCG14824

LEE MULLICAN

Untitled, c. 1950s

Acrylic on wood and twine

26 x 37 x 8 1/4 in.
55.9 x 94 x 21 cm

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LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1950-55
Twigs, string, and feathers
56 3/4 x 19 x 2 in.
144.1 x 48.3 x 5.1 cm

JCG14817

LEE MULLICAN

Untitled, N.D.

Acrylic on wood and twine

74 1/2 x 62 1/2 x 7 in.
189.2 x 158.8 x 17.8 cm

JCG13556

LEE MULLICAN

Untitled, c. 1950s

Painted wood

18 1/2 x 6 x 2 1/2 in.
47 x 15.2 x 6.3 cm

JCG14816

LEE MULLICAN
LMT-11-4.TGA, “Spare Game”, 1987
.TGA file
512 x 482 pixels

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LEE MULLICAN

Installation View
Pictured: Untitled, 1985

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
18 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 7 in.
47 x 21.6 x 17.8 cm

JCG11234

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
26 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 10 in.
67.3 x 24.1 x 25.4 cm

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LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
21 x 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.
53.3 x 16.5 x 14.6 cm

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LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Glazed ceramic
20 x 12 x 14 in.
50.8 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm

JCG13603

LEE MULLICAN
Effigy Pot, Snake Priest, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
14 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.
36.2 x 14 x 12.1 cm

JCG11228

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, 1985
Fired and glazed ceramic
21 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
54 x 16.5 x 16.5 cm

JCG13602

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1992
Oil on canvas
55 x 216 in.
139.7 x 548.6 cm

JCG14828

LEE MULLICAN

The Source - East, 1981

Oil on canvas

80 x 50 in.
203.2 x 127 cm

JCG10359

LEE MULLICAN

The Source - West, 1981

Oil on canvas

80 x 50 in.
203.2 x 127 cm

JCG10360

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1980-81
Oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 in.
127.3 x 101.6 cm

JCG10361

LEE MULLICAN
Untitled, c. 1980-81
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in.
127 x 101.6 cm

JCG10363

Press Release

James Cohan is pleased to present Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived, on view from January 12 through February 25, 2023, at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception on Thursday, January 12 from 5-7 PM.

Lee Mullican: The Nest Revived spans six decades of formal experimentation by the late West Coast artist. This exhibition brings together important early paintings and rarely-seen wooden assemblages from the 1940s and 50s along with a monumental painting, totemic ceramics, and a groundbreaking digital artwork from the 1980s.

Mullican was a seeker. Drawing on a wide range of influences, he moved between painting and sculpture to push abstraction and pattern beyond the surface of the canvas. The exhibition reflects upon the dynamic processes that defined Mullican’s art-making and reveals the artist’s enduring belief in the spiritual dimension of abstraction. This sensibility was rooted in a lifetime’s study and appreciation of non-Western, global artistic traditions. The 1948 painting from which the exhibition takes its title, The Nest Revived, suggests that for Mullican, the natural world was a place of endless and regenerative inspiration, a point of both origin and return.

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The Nest Revived

Gallery Exhibition at 52 Walker Street

Jan 12 - Feb 25, 2023

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