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Dave Muller
In his prodigious and varied body of work, Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller (b. 1964, San Francisco) has assumed the roles of organizer, promoter, collaborator, appropriator, chronicler, and cartographer. Since 1994, Muller has arranged what he calls "Three Day Weekends." Half-party, half-exhibition, these short-lived events create an opportunity for social interaction, the exchange of ideas, and the display of artwork. Muller also produces drawings and watercolors resembling promotional posters for other artists' work and has created a series of installations of wall drawings and watercolors that chart the history of rock 'n' roll. Through these various projects, he attempts to map culture and shape the social setting in which it operates. In works like The Northerly Set (2002—03), an installation of modular paintings on paper, the artist engages the physical landscape in a similarly diagrammatic way. As in the image pictured below, he places objects from certain locations—in this case, a balloon and banner of flags that he noticed above an L.A. car dealership—in paintings whose backgrounds are generic skies marked by clouds and contrails. Muller conceives of these installations as "kits" that the owner of the work can arrange and rearrange in various configurations on the wall, an open process he compares to his experience mixing as a DJ.—Ted Mann
Dave Muller, The Northerly Set #8, #20, #21, #22, #32, #97, #104, 2002–03. Acrylic on paper, eight sheets; six sheets: 40 x 32 inches each; two sheets: 32 x 40 inches each. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the Young Collectors Council 2005. 73.1-8
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