Without compromising his unique vision or distinctive style, Lee Mullican was able to embrace many of the attitudes and tendencies of his time — picking up on abstract expressionism, minimalism and even Pop, or, in the case of his work from the 1970s (the focus of this show at Marc Selwyn Fine Art), pattern painting. Mullican filled these canvases with his characteristic cascades of myriad sharply applied vertical lines, but here, instead of coalescing into volatile images, they rain across dark fields in lockstep, creating stuttering but hypnotic rhythms. The evenness of this near-mindless compositional format prevents any possible imagery from forming. More open than most of Mullican’s paintings, these canvases have no center, nor even any real edge; they could go on forever. They are so decentralized that their luminosity seems to come from everywhere at once. This is the “radiant... More >>>