When books and magazines make their way onto a canvas! There’s no mistaking a Marlon Mullen painting. His vibrant works reimagine the world of art through bold color and lush surfaces. For nearly 40 years, Mullen has been based at the NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, a progressive art studio for artists with developmental disabilities. Taking inspiration from the books and magazines of all kinds that fill shelves and rolling carts at @niadartcenter, Mullen creates mesmerizing canvases where letters and imagery are reordered into pure form. See a new exhibition featuring a decade of Mullen’s transformative works, on view now at MoMA. — Marlon Mullen. “Untitled.” 2017. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of AC Hudgins. © 2024 Marlon Mullen