Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to announce Lee Mullican: works from Rome. It is the third exhibition with the late California artist.

Lee Mullican, along with Wolfgang Paalen and Gordon Onslow Ford, was known as a member of "the Dynaton." This group of artists, named after the Greek word for "the possible," acted as a bridge between the European Surrealist and American Abstract Expressionist schools. Disbanding shortly after its seminal exhibition in 1951 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Dynaton explored the subconscious mind, mysticism, automatism, and the influences of ancient cultures. Mullican remained true to these ideas but went on to develop his own highly personal imagery.

This exhibition will focus on a one year period Mullican spent in Rome with a studio located in a 16th century palazzo. With these works, he captured the sound of Rome - traffic, car horns, speeding Vespas and sound birds at twilight. The staccato rhythm of the city appears predominantly in richly contrasted black, white and ivory with a few works in muted blues, oranges and yellows. Mullican constructs these dynamic compositions consistent with the Dynaton's idea of awareness - the meditative self surrounded by the energy of the landscape.

Lee Mullican was born in 1919 in Chickasha, Oklahoma and died in Los Angeles in 1998. He began drawing and painting as a child and continued in college becoming a topological draftsman in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Mullican's works are included in the permanent collections of numerous important institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of Modern Art, among others.