Jill Mulleady's Los Angeles Studio. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Jill Mulleady, A Sun for the Sleepers (2022) (detail). Oil on linen. 127.3 x 266.1 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Jill Mulleady, All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun (2022) (detail). Oil on linen. 112 x 55 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Jill Mulleady, The Vampire (2022). Oil on linen. 127 x 266.1 cm. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Jill Mulleady‘s weird and wonderful compositions possess a theatrical flair. In the Los Angeles-based artist’s latest exhibition, Bend Towards The Sun at New York’s Gladstone Gallery (15 September–22 October 2022), reality and imagination are blended in new works that reference Francisco Goya’s ‘Black Paintings’.
Mulleady takes the precise dimensions of the 14 works in Goya’s canonical series as a starting point for her own canvases. The resulting CinemaScopic presentations of landscapes and interiors are the stars of the show.
Mulleady’s images get under your skin: unsettling female figures stare out of the canvas, and surprising elements from the natural world punctuate dreamlike, post-apocalyptic scenes.
Mulleady graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts from the Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2009. In 2011, she received an award in the Art in Perpetuity Trust’s visual arts competition in London.Mulleady currently also has work showing in David Zwirner‘s online group exhibition, A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9 (9 September–15 October 2022).
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