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Daniel Mullen Creates Realistic Architecture With Spatial Awareness

02.17.14 | By
Daniel Mullen Creates Realistic Architecture With Spatial Awareness

Using paint, paper tape, pencil and blank canvas, artist Daniel Mullen creates images that examines with space and its representation through movement, fragmentation and the use of perspective. The friction created between the image and the painting, between painted and non-painted surfaces, and activation and deactivation of planes is what gives these creations meaning. Through it, Mullen conveys the “subtle illusion of space, as a question of perception.”

Constructing the tower, 110x140cm, Oil on canvas

Constructing the tower, 110x140cm, Oil on canvas

My recent works are not a direct representation of existing architecture. The point of departure comes from the deconstruction of thoughts and memories. Meaning is then derived from a common understanding. At the same time that understanding raises new questions of association, searching for a disquieting intimacy.

Resurrecting the monumental, 200x200cm, Oil on canvas

Resurrecting the monumental, 200x200cm, Oil on canvas

The Architects Retreat, 80x80cm, Oil on canvas

The Architects Retreat, 80x80cm, Oil on canvas

Dive, 70x70cm, Oil on canvas

Dive, 70x70cm, Oil on canvas

Ejecting space, 65x75cm, Oil on canvas

Ejecting space, 65x75cm, Oil on canvas

Standby, 170x200cm, Oil on canvas

Standby, 170x200cm, Oil on canvas

Booth, 40x50cm, Oil on canvas

Booth, 40x50cm, Oil on canvas

hub, 50x40cm, Oil on raw canvas

hub, 50x40cm, Oil on raw canvas

The architect, 145x185cm, Oil on canvas

The architect, 145x185cm, Oil on canvas

After surviving a quarter life crisis, Nanette went from working in healthcare canadian meds to pursuing her loves of design, food and writing. During the day she works in social media marketing, by night she writes for Design Milk. You can find more of her work at nanettewong.com.