#16 Lucy Mullican

STUDIO PROGRAM 2024

We are thrilled to introduce Lucy Mullican, our current studio program artist at 99 Canal, currently using STUDIO 1 to complete a large scale series of watercolors on China Birch, which will be shown next spring in Europe. 

The panel paintings which are dimensionally her height and arm span emerge viscerally, influenced by themes from the natural world as well as from her own body. Exterior environments blend with bodily forms creating anthropomorphic landscapes. She uses natural and synthetic mineral pigments mixed to achieve a particular color palette creating translucent surfaces that reveal her representation of spirit.

As part of her process, Mullican will wear a plain white dress while working in the studio that will be slowly transformed by what she is painting on a given day. The dress which she willtake off at the end of each day, acts as a visual testament to the time physically spent in this space which is also an aspect of her work.

About the Artist

Lucy Mullican (b. 1994) lives and works in New York. She received her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2019. In March 2022 she had her first solo exhibition, Sensed as Well as Seen, in New York City at Olympia Gallery, followed by her first European show, Fragments, at Villa Magdalena, San Sebastián, Spain in September 2022. In February 2023, Villa Magdalena also produced her second solo exhibition, Veils, at Galeria Moscota in Mexico City. Mullican’s work, Illusive Places, was featured in a group show at PACE gallery in Seoul, South Korea in May 2024. Other group shows include Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and New York.

For the past three years she has performed alongside artist Joan Jonas in Out Takes. What The Storm Washed In. The work has been performed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, The Haus der Kunst in Münich, Artist Space New York City and most recently at MoMa.

Studio Program | 99 CANAL

The Studio Program is a one to four-month program open to emerging and mid-career artists based both within and outside New York City.

Individuals are invited to work at 99 Canal based on their necessity for studio space and their potential impact on the neighborhood and our community. A key feature of the studio program is its strong focus on peer-to-peer engagement, recognizing the transformative power of collaboration and knowledge exchange.