We’re honored to host John Mulvany at ARTSPACE on Saturday, February 22 at 2pm for a RECLAIMED Artist Talk.

Mulvany brings a different perspective to his artwork. Merging photography, paint and AI, taxidermy and contemporary landscapes, he creates digital collages that are then reimagined through paint.

Titled Ghosts From the Dead Zoo, Mulvany’s Artist Talk will discuss his pieces in RECLAIMED, and how he interpreted the theme; taxidermy animals and dioramas; the intersection of AI and art-making; collaboration and reclaiming the human experience of art-making; how artworks talk to each other; and the spaces between art and audience.

John Mulvany’s recent paintings originate in extensive photographic research from Victorian-era natural history museums and West Texas taxidermy shops. Mulvany creates digital collages that embed taxidermy animals into contemporary landscape dioramas which are then reimagined through AI image generation technology. The animals in the paintings are approximations of life, evoking a sense of simultaneous presence and absence, permanence and transience, the real and the unreal.