Lee Mullican
b. 1919 in Chickasha, OK, USA
d. 1998 in Santa Monica, CA, USA
Mullican’s paintings are characterised by dense, vibratory fields of mark-making built from thousands of small, rhythmic strokes that generate an almost hallucinatory sense of energy and depth.
Drawing on Surrealism, cosmic mysticism, and his early training as a topographical draughtsman, his work occupies a singular position between abstraction and spiritual vision.
In the 1980s he extended his practice into early computer-generated imagery, applying the same obsessive mark-making logic to digital tools.
His work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMOMA, MOCA Los Angeles, and LACMA, among others.
