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KARL MULLEN
Karl Mullen, born in Dublin, Ireland, lives and works in the Berkshire Mountains. He has developed his own non-traditional approach to art making often utilizing found and repurposed materials.
Painting largely with his hands, Karl creates distinctive, poetic figures that float on fields of color. The imagery in his paintings is born out of Irish mythology, family and dreams. Like Dubuffet's art brut, of which "outsider art" is the English approximation, Mullen's paintings privilege the raw over the cooked, spontaneous process over studied composition, the iconic over the naturalistic, the primitive over the polished.
Mullen's paintings reside in many private collections, and are shown in galleries throughout America and Europe, as well as in the annual Outsider Art Fair in New York.
His work has been showcased in the PBS syndicated TV series Rare Visions & Roadside Revelations and is frequently included in art/design magazines such as Home Accents and Elle Decor.