Dave Muller Lecture – October 19 @ 7:00 pm

Free and open to the public

From 1994 to 2000, Dave Muller became known for nomadic social art events, known as Three Day Weekends. During that time, he also made watercolor announcements for exhibitions of his contemporaries as well as artists of earlier generations such as Jackson Pollock, made in 1999, and Andy Warhol, made in 2000. As DJ, curator, and artist, Muller examines with wit and irony the formation of an individual’s identity through the amassing of cultural references. For his series Top Tens (2004), Muller created symbolic portraits in the form of delicately rendered acrylic paintings of album sleeve spines; the artist has since extended this practice to include books, cassettes, and CDs. Since 2004 he has also poked fun at identity-definition and categorization in his acrylic star paintings of genre headings as they appear in magazines like the New Yorker, Time Out, and the New York Times. Muller has also created several versions of auditory self-portraits in the form of extensive playlists broadcasted into the gallery. In 2008 Muller installed a mural of a massive timeline chronicling the evolution of rock n’ roll since 1955 entitled As Below, So Above in the lobby of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; the mural is one of several works Muller has created since 2003 based on this timeline. Parallel to his works directly related to music, since 1999 Muller has engaged with pictorial renderings of landscapes (both urban and natural) and the sky (both day and night).