Mario M Muller

Born 1962, New York City
First Generation American
Living and working in Los Angeles, California

For the past 10 years, I have been painting exclusively with India Ink on Paper. My goal, regardless of subject matter, is to concentrate on form over feature. Thus the Silhouettes and Shadows of an Urban Landscape fascinate me endlessly.

I hold a degree from Northwestern University in Film and early in my career attended master classes with Roy Lichtenstein, Audrey Flack, James Brooks and Wayne Theibaud.As a painter and a sculptor I have had 18 solo exhibitions in cities as diverse as Louisville, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Paris. The most recent exhibition was titled Heaven or Las Vegas at DCKT Contemporary Gallery in Manhattan. My paintings on paper have been published by the journals Sonora Review, The American Voice and Phoebe and used as book jacket illustrations by University of Pittsburg Press, Hummingbird Press and Sarabande Press.My work is in significant public and private collections in America and Germany, which include Pfizer, Banana Republic, Northwestern University, Swiss RE:, Deutsche Bank, Louisville Gas and Electric, Radio Shack and the JB Speed Art Museum.
In addition to a prolific art career, I have published numerous articles on art and film criticism. And I have curated several exhibitions for corporate, gallery and non-for profit settings.
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2010 “Las Vegas and the UrbanCanyons,” AIA Los Angeles Chapter, Los Angeles, CA
2009 “Ten Years of Painting on Paper,” Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 “Heaven or Las Vegas,” DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 “Lexicon,” DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2002 “Point of Departure,” Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 “UrbanMotif,” SPF:a Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 “Orion,” B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
1996 “Bill Evans and The Birds of Appetite,” Images Gallery, Louisville, KY
1994 “The Sacred Geometry of Chance,” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
1992 “Duck Hunting in a Glass Bottom Boat,” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Double Exposure,” Jefferson Community College, Louisville, KY
“The Pedestrians,” Public Art Project, Louisville, KY
1990 “Joy and Consolation,” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
1989 “Requiem,” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
“In Defense of Love,” LVAA Water Tower Gallery, KY
1988 “Poetic Coincidence,” Boyd Martin Experimental Theatre, Louisville, KY
“Holding Court,” Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY
1987 “Pounding the Pavement,” Floyd County Art Museum, New Albany, IN
“In the C...