Nora Mulheren
Born - 1980, Chicago, IL / Hometown - New York, NY
About the Artist
Within Mulheren’s critique of these source images, she has found an appreciation for the high level of craftsmanship and brilliant use of formal elements. Design is the interface between industry, production, and consumer life. Consequently, reproduction and representation is a subject of her work. While depicting crumpled paper on fragile material (paper), the acrylic and gouache paint themselves are as artificial as the image portrayed in the advertisements. The flatness and opaque qualities allow for a superficial facade where it is nearly impossible to look beyond the surface of her paintings.
Although, today's fashion is discarded tomorrow, ideally artwork won't be discarded and the price of a painting may outweigh the product value. The ads tell us that luxury items are deemed as necessities and many manufacturers reintroduce the old with a packaging face-lift. When Mulheren crumples these advertisements, one does not need to know the details of the original advertisement to be able to identify which ad is being manipulated. In painting the ads from the sub-sequential issues, the same designer's products and any changes in the ad campaign are reflected in her work.
- 2013
- Bravo TV's Amy Poliakoff Hosts Art Meets Fashion
@L'il Charlies, NYC
- 2013
- The TimeOUT Apartment (curated by @60inches in conjunction with NYCxDesign)
@Andaz Hotel Penthouse
- 2013
- Time In/ High Art! Gala (Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Chairman)
@Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC
@Windows of Garmany (Presented by James Yarosh Associates)
- 2012
- AhaLife Party
@Bagatelle. New York City
- 2012
- A Reality Perfected
@Windows at Garmany
- 2012
- MCM X @60inches
@The Bazaar at SLS Hotel, Miami, Florida
- 2012
- Abracadabra
@Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
@813 Navesink River Road, Locust, New Jersey 07760
- 2011
- KiptonART Rising 2012 Finalist Exhibition
@Scoop Soho, 473-475 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
- 2011
- Appearances May Be Deceptive (SOLO) @ Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ
@Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ
- 2011
- Maison de Luxe, A Designer Show House
@Greystone Estate, Beverly Hills, California
- 2011
- GQ @ Park and Bond
@414 West 14th Street, New York, New York
- 2010
- Five Year Anniversary
@Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
- 2010
- Interlude
@The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
- 2010
- Counterfeit Crumples: New York Workspace Residency Show
@Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Fifth Floor, New York, New York
- 2010
- Pop Up, Juried Exhibition
@ShopSCAD, Atlanta, Georgia
@Gustein Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
- 2009
- Spring Group Exhibition
@Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
- 2009
- Artist Open Studio
@Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, New Jersey
- 2009
- Artist Open Studio
@Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, New Jersey
- 2009
- BAL National 2009, 47th Annual Juried Competition
@Beaumont Art League, Beaumont, Texas
- 2009
- A Taste of Wine and Art, MHA Fundraiser
@Deal Golf and Country Club, Deal, New Jersey
- 2008
- Snap to Grid
@LACDA, Los Angeles, California
- 2003
- Senior Thesis Show
@University Gallery, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island
- 2002
- Visions 5th Annual Comtemporary Group Exhibition, Juried Competition
@Newport Congregational Church, Newport, Rhode Island
