James Mullen

Associate Professor of Art, Chair of Visual Arts Department

Fall 2009

  • Drawing I (VART 150B)
  • Intermediate Independent Study in Visual Arts (VART 295)
  • Senior Seminar (VART 390)
Phone (207) 725-3297
Title Associate Professor
Department Art
2nd Title Program Director of Visual Arts
2nd Department ART
3rd Title Chair
3rd Department ART
Work Location Visual Arts Center
E-Mail jmullen@bowdoin.edu
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Education

1991          MFA in Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1986          LaNapoule Summer Art Program, Durham, NH
1985          BFA in Sculpture, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Links

James Mullen's work in the Faculty Gallery »
Personal projects site: bowdoin.edu/~jmullen/ »

Professional Experience

2007 - present
Chair, Art Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2006 - present
Associate Professor, Visual Art Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2003 - 2004
Director, Visual Arts Division, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
1999 - 2005
Assistant Professor, Visual Art Department, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
1997 - 1999
Assistant Professor, Art Department, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN
1991 - 1997   
Professor (unranked), Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Painting Department and Foundations Department
1990 - 1991
Associate Instructor, Fundamental Studios Program, Indiana University
1986 - 1989
Sculpture Technician, Sculpture Department, University of New Hampshire

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009
Lookout and Beyond, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2007
James Mullen - Time and Tides, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2005
James Mullen - Water's Edge, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
James Mullen - Reflections, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2004
James Mullen - New Works, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2003
James Mullen - Quadrants, UMF Art Gallery, University of Maine at Farmington
2000
James Mullen, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1999
James Mullen-Paintings, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
James Mullen - Studio Works, The Michael Dunn Memorial Gallery, Oakland City University, Oakland City, IN
James Mullen -Lowcountry Works, USCB Art Gallery, University of South Carolina Beaufort, Beaufort, SC
James Mullen, Cowles Myles Collier East Gallery, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA
Paintings and Drawings - James Mullen , Fine and Hatfield Gallery, Evansville, IN
1997
James Mullen - The Savannah Suite, Owens - Thomas Regional Arts Gallery,
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Painting in the South: James Mullen, The Gertrude Herbert Institute for the Arts, Augusta, GA
1996
James Mullen-Plein Air Works, Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY
James Mullen - Oil Paintings, The Art Place, Marietta, GA
Landworks: Recent Paintings by James Mullen, Hamilton Hall Gallery, Savannah, GA
James Mullen, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
1995
James Mullen - Landscape/Still Life , Bergan Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, GA
1994
James Mullen: Recent Works, Atrium Gallery, Savannah, GA
1991
James Mullen, Thesis Exhibition, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
1990
James Mullen: Landscape of the Sublime, Gordon College, and Wenham, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions


2009              
Shorelines, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX
Just Look at Yourself, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
8th Annual All Media International Online Juried Exhibition, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE   Special Recognition Award
Selected Gallery Artists, Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
2008
Portland 08, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Painting as Presence, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Painting=Poetry –ut pictura poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Painters Who Teach, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
National Contemporary Realism, M.A.Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2007
The Art of Collecting, The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Panoramic Vistas, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Drawn to the Sea, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
Plane Text, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
The Fixed and the Fluid, E Street Gallery, Nantucket, MA
Memorial Exhibition: John Hatch and John Laurent, The Banks Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Mainely Maine, Landscape Paintings of Maine and Beyond, Sherry French
2006
Mainely Maine:Landscape Paintings of Maine and Beyond, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
The Portland Show '06, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Approaching the Coast, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
Summer Group Show, Ruschman Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Meditations on Stillness and Light (with Virginia Peck), Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
The Four Seasons, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
Alumni Art Exhibition, Hostetter Arts Center, Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ
Painting = Poetry - Ut Pictura Poesis, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Mainely Maine-Landscape Paintings of Maine and Beyond, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
The Portland Show '04, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Eclectic Terrains, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
Summer Group Show, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Two Artist Couples, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
Exquisite Corpses Today: 25 Curiosities Commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Gallery Invitational, Alpers Fine Art, Andover, MA
2003
COASTAL: Michael Kolster and James Mullen, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Portland Museum of Art Biennial 2003, PMA, Portland, ME
Contemporary Drawing 2003, T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
2002
Abstraction/Figuration: Invitational Group Show, The Painting Center, NY,NY
Michael Kolster and James Mullen : Interpreting the Landscape, Saco Museum, Saco, ME
Invitational Exhibition:Gallery and Guest Artists, Denise Bibro Fine Art, NY,NY
Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, CT
Prospects: 6 Painters and the Landscape, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition, ICON Gallery, Brunswick, ME
Still Lives: A Tradition Retold, Saco Museum, Saco, ME
2001
Invitational Exhibition, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
35th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College,Corpus Christi, TX
New Works by Gallery Artists, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Current Work 2001: A National Competition, Rosenthal Gallery, Fayetteville State University, NC
2000
Eloquent Objects: The Sense and Sensibility of Still Life Painting, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Contemporary New England Landscapes: The 2000 Gloria Wilcher Exhibition,
The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester,NH
1999
Gallery Artists, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
1998
Hoosier Landscapes: Past and Present, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN
Eastside/Westside, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
The First Twenty -Five Years: The BFA at UNH, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
49th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
1997
New Gallery Artists, Ruschman Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Annual Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana Gallery, Evansville, IN
National Invitational Art Exhibition 97, Brenau University Gainesville, GA
18th Annual Juried Fine Arts Competition, West Bank Gallery, Savannah, GA
The Low Country and Beyond, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, GA
The Magic Mirror: Realist Painting Today, Sturgis Gallery,
Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA
Hilton Head Art League 1997 Juried Show, Self Family Arts Center, Hilton Head, SC
1996
The Land, Brown Center, Cowley County Community College, Arkansas City , KS 
LaGrange National XIX Biennial Competition, CVAM, LaGrange, GA
Arts in the Heart of Augusta Competition, GHIA, Augusta, GA
The View From Here-Landscape Paintings by Cavander,Vasta-Carr and Mullen, Cragin Fife Gallery, Brookline, MA
The Real, the Unreal and the Surreal, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1995
From Sea to Shining Sea: Contemporary Landscapes, Snowgrass Institute Cashmere, WA
Arts in the Heart of Augusta Exhibition, Augusta, GA
The 38th Chatuaqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chatuaqua, NY
Resurgam Gallery's Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
Horizons, Georgia Southern University Art Gallery, Statesboro, GA
1994
Invitational Exhibition, Ravenscroft School, Raleigh, NC
Art Alumni Exhibition, University Art Galleries,UNH, Durham , NH
Fighting Anachronism: Three Painters, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
1993
National Juried Show, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY
Fourth Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Collector's Gallery, Savannah, GA
1992
Faculty Exhibition, SCAD, Savannah, GA
Invitational Exhibition, Angel Fire Gallery, Rochester, NY
1991
Eleventh Annual National Small Painting Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
New Faculty Exhibition, SCAD, Savannah, GA
21st National Works on Paper Exhibition, Minot State University, Minot,SD
1990
Whitewater Valley Art Competition, Richmond, IN
New Dimensions: Works by UNH Alumni, University Art Galleries, Durham, NH
Fifth Annual Klamath Juried Show, Cogley Art Center, Klamath Falls, OR
Tenth Annual National Small Painting Exhibition, Wichita Art Association, Wichita, KS
1989
First Street Gallery Annual Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
An Exposition of Excellence, Nashua Center for the Arts, Nashua, NH
Seventh Annual Maine/Maritime Flatwork Exhibition, University of Maine at Presque Isle
New Landscapes: Lisa Harlocker and James Mullen , Lotus Gallery , Cambridge, MA
New Hampshire Art Association Annual Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art,
Manchester, NH
Ogunquit Art Association and Invited Artists, Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
Works by Gordon Carlisle and James Mullen, The Button Factory, Portsmouth, NH
Sixth Annual Maine/Maritime Flatwork Exhibition, University of Maine at Presque Isle
1987
Area Self-Portraits, Terramagra Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
Five Portsmouth Artists, The Button Factory, Portsmouth, NH
1986
The Nude, Blackthorne Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
LaNapoule Art Program Exhibition, Durham, NH
1985
New Hampshire Art Association Annual Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition, University of New Hampshire
Art Students College Show, The Gallery, Manchester, NH
Small Impressions 85 Third Annual Exhibition, New Jersey Printmaking Council, Branchburg, NJ
hird Annual Maine/Maritime Flatwork Exhibition, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Selected Prints From the NJPC, Art Institute of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
1984
Members Show, New Jersey Printmaking Council, Branchburg, NJ

Selected Awards and Fellowships

2009        Rusack Coastal Studies Project Initiative Fund, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
                (also 2003, 2002, 2001)
2008        Ragdale Foundation Fellowship, Lake Forest, IL (also 2005, 2001)
2008        Spring Island Artist in Residence (also 1998,1997)
2007        Faculty Research Grant, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (also 2004)

Selected Public and Private Collections

University of Maine at Presque Isle, Presque Isle, ME
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Wichita Center for the Arts, Inc, Wichita, KS
The Marriott Corporation, Jacksonville, FLA
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
University of Evansville, Evansville, IN
John S. Koch and Sons, Evansville, IN
The Spring Island Trust Foundation, Okatie, SC
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Salzer, Beaufort, SC