Mark Mulroney

San Diego artist Mark Mulroney paints spiraling Seussian landscapes. Dismembered trees, discarded mattresses, old shipping palettes, scarred telephone poles, and fragments of ranch-style homes comprise his eerie vertical paintings. He describes his work as landscapes of refuse in a land of disposable architecture. Mulroney relates his work to the experience of growing up in Orange County with its rapid suburban development during the 1970s and its corresponding destruction of the natural landscape. "In front of the mini-malls and dome-shaped movie theatres," he explains, "there was usually a single orange tree left fenced in with a plaque about the brave speculators that brought this fine laundromat to the community."

For the Cerca Series Mulroney presented his canvases in the context of a mural painted onto the walls and windows of the Fayman Gallery. Cerca Series: Mark Mulroney is his first solo museum exhibition.

Support for the exhibition came from the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.
.
.