Johnny G. Mullen: Rehearsals of Movement
Solo Show at Peninsula Gallery
September 19 — November 1, 2025
Cracked in Cracks, With No Landscapes
Solo Show at Peninsula Gallery
February 18 — April 1, 2023
PAS/TRIBECA
PAS/TRIBECA was Peninsula’s satellite window installation located at 49 Walker Street.
March — April 2021
The Life of Signs at Peninsula Art Space
Life of Signs is a group show which functions as an illustration of “discursive” forms as ways of symbolically representing and transforming experience.
January 26 – March 15, 2020
ART IN REVIEW: John Mullen
The New York Times
John Mullen, a young painter from Scotland who is having his first solo show in New York, paints within a familiar genre: the notational, diagrammatic, map-like abstraction defined by artists from…
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The New York Sun
November 2-4, 2007
“OUTSIDE VIEW The title of John Mullen’s latest exhibit, “Field Guide seems to indicate that the scenes he depicts are from nature, and they are…”
[Through Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m., Howard Scott Gallery, 529 W. 20th St.]
The New York Observer
May 30, 2005
“How surprising is it to learn that John Mullen’s recent paintings, on display at the Howard Scott Gallery, are a meditation on the natural world? Very surprising. Oh, you can ascertain images…”
- Mario Naves
[Through June 11, Howard Scott Gallery, 529 W. 20th St]
The New Yorker
June 13 & 20, 2005
“A series of actylic paintings, all in a standard twenty six by twenty inch format, describe the slow building effects of natural forces on the landscape. The images suggest the steady work of water, wind…”
[Through June 18. Scott, 529 W. 20th St.]
John Mullen, Incursions: Paintings 2005
(Monograph) - Available Here
“The personal image is a more than adequate term to describe Mullen’s remarkable, new body of work. By saying this, he gives free rein to the persistent invention of new forms without ignoring the implicit commentary that he feels in relation to them.”
- Robert C. Morgan
The New York Observer
October 21, 2002
“Put another way, Mr. Mullen is interested in order only to the extent that he can reconfigure it under radically different circumstances. Coercing his fractured patterns…”
- Mario Naves
[John Mullen: Out of Site is at the Howard Scott Gallery, 529 West 20th Street, seventh floor, until Oct. 26.]
Review Magazine
March 15, 2000
“What is most impressive about this exhibition is how the ordering offers a completeness in the work without stultifying the means or the feeling for the process by which the surface was constructed”
- Robert C. Morgan
Flash Art Magazine
October, 2000
“To create an abstract language simultaneously sensual and cerebral, to play continually with pattern and decoration without compromising the individual integrity of each canvas, to develop a line to demarcate the border…”
- Adrian Dannatt