Busacca Gallery

Hour come 'round by artist Robert Mullenix: oil on canvas underpainting materials include acrylic paint, acrylic gel medium. I earned my MFA in painting from University of Illinois 1990. Since then, I have been painting while I serve as a stay-at-home dad. I am interested in the relationship between photographic and hand-painted imagery in the perception of visual information. Born: 11/27/64 Lives: Oxfod, Ohio Education Master of Fine Arts in Painting, May 1990 University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Bachelor of Arts, May 1987 Sioux Falls College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Solo Exhibitions Interior: Paintings by Robert Mullenix (Solo Show), August 2010 Ankeny Arts Center, 1520 Southwest Ordnance Road, Ankeny, IA 50023-2510 Treeline: Paintings by Robert Mullenix (Solo Show), February 2010 Diane Kidd Gallery, Tiffin University, Tiffin, OH 44883 Interior: Paintings by Robert Mullenix (Solo Show), January 2010 Main gallery, Chadron State College, Chadron, NE 69337 Dominic Lippillo and Robert Mullenix, March 2009 ROYGBIV Gallery, 997 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43201-2402 Group Exhibitions Emerging Artist Winter Exhibition (Group Show), January 2010 Morpho Gallery, 5216 N. Damen Ave., Chicago, IL, 60625 Variety Show (Group Show), October-December 2009 Space 237, 237 N. Michigan, Toledo, OH 43604 8th Annual Summer All Media International Online Juried Exhibition, August 2009 Upstream People Gallery, 5607 Howard Street, Omaha, NE 68106 Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition (Juried Group Show), August 2009 Cox Fine Arts Bldg., 717 E. 17th Ave. Columbus, OH 43211-2698 The Painters, (Group show), January 2009 The Carnegie, 1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, KY 41011 Creating Synthesis: Exploring Art and Technology, (Juried group show), Jan. 2009 CALADAN GALLERY P.O. Box 391939, Cambridge, MA The Artist Project, (Juried group show), December 2008 Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL 60654

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most young realist artists these days paint from projected slide images of photographs, usually omitting niggling details and complexities of light and tone. This gives the work a compositional elegance, but there is also a nagging sense that the landscapes we are looking at are not quite real.