FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present a series of new paintings by James Mullen. James Mullen’s artistic practice explores the relationship between perception and knowledge, particularly through the interplay of painting and photography. His work investigates how visual ideas construct meaning. He is drawn to photography’s capacity for both documentation and creating visual meaning, contrasting it with painting’s unique ability to embody accumulated experience, time, and the human touch. Mullen’s projects navigate the intersection of these two media, examining the connection between direct experience and its virtual representation.
