The Las Vegas Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition, Adventures in a Temperate Climate: A Retrospective of Paintings by Martin Mull from June 11 through August 25, 2006. The exhibition will feature 44 paintings by Los Angeles artist Martin Mull, dating from 1984 to 2006, including oil paintings on linen and oil paintings on canvas. It marks the third installment in LVAM’s Contemporary Series; an ongoing series dedicated to one-person exhibitions by emerging and internationally recognized contemporary artists.

“Mull’s works focus on a critique of Modern culture. They have received substantial and positive attention from critics in recent years,” says Libby Lumpkin, director of the Las Vegas Art Museum. “He tends to temper the cool intellectualism and biting critique typical of Postmodern art with images imbued with emotion and psychological depth, and has been grouped with other artists who develop paintings out of pastiche images appropriated from magazines and other sources in popular culture, such as Mark Tansey, David Salle, and Neo Rauch.” According to Lumpkin, “The exhibition also surveys the changes in style that have taken place in Mull’s work over a period of more than twenty years.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a 120-page catalog containing essays by Libby Lumpkin, Gail Levin, and Tina Yapelli. After the exhibition closes at LVAM, it travels to the University Art Gallery at San Diego State University, September 11–October 7, 2006, and The Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, October 28, 2006–January 21, 2007.