Lecture and Performance by Artist Matt Mullican

September 21, 2006

Artist Matt Mullican will give a lecture at 2:30 p.m. and a performance at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, September 27. The lecture will take place in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art, and the performance will take place in Zoller Gallery in the Visual Arts Building. The events are sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts’ John M. Anderson Artists and Scholars Lecture Series and are free to the public.

Mullican was born in Santa Monica, California. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, and has exhibited his work widely in the United States and abroad since the mid-1970s. Solo museum exhibitions of his work have been mounted in Basel, St. Louis, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Hamburg, Santa Barbara, Washington, D.C., and New York. A retrospective, Mullican Frame, More Details from an Imaginary Universe, was organized by the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, and circulated to museums in Oxford (U.K.), Barcelona, St. Gall and Bolzano in 2000 and 2001. His public and corporate commissions may be seen at Akron (Ohio) University; the National Institute for Academic Degrees (NIAD), Tokyo; Schiphol International Airport, Amsterdam; Miyagi University, Japan; Los Angeles Convention Center; University of Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Swiss Bank Corporation, New York; and Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands. He is represented by Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, and Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York.

Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu