COURTNEY MULLER
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Courtney Muller creates non-figurative abstract paintings to narrate the sensations of lived experiences with her audience. She is influenced by the awareness and recognition of the Divine in the ordinary, a duality she has felt between light and shadow. Both natural and artificial light have inspired Muller with their varying values and the manner in which they flow, shift, and fade. Similarly, her fascination with shadows, and how they move and morph into new shapes with new gradients, has encouraged her experimentation with various mediums.
This experimentation led her from mixed-media collages to oil painting. Her paintings exhibit gestural freedom that plays with mark-making and texture through the mixture of paints with wax and a variety of chromatic tones to best express the captured sensations and emotions.
Muller’s artistic process involves writing and painting simultaneously, which generates a deeper connection between herself and her visual practice. Her process is meditative and intuitive, providing space for connection with herself and others.
COURTNEY MULLER ON
I am a stalker, a shadow stalker. I am obsessed with shadows and their enduring duality. I look for them everywhere whether it is in a cumulus cloud, next to a roadside post, or in the craggy corner of a marsh. I study their duality: how the brightest light is always next to the darkest dark. I watch shadows move and morph into new shapes, notice their new gradations, and eventually say good-bye to them as they disappear. It is the shadow that keeps me experimenting with new mediums, especially with encaustics and oils. My work is an interpretation of the life of a shadow. I hope to capture and share with the viewer that split second moment, where the shadow offers us all of the light and all of the dark. Most importantly, my work aims to show that within the life of a shadow, light always finds the cracks and seeps into the deepest, darkest places. Always.
