Joan Mullen

Originally from Rhode Island, Joan Mullen spent her twenties and thirties living in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Brooklyn before returning to New England. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Since moving to the Boston area, her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums, and alternative spaces and she has been commissioned for large-scale corporate sculptures. Mullen creates sculptures by combining found objects, modeled cast forms and additional materials and processes to heighten their psychological impact. Working intuitively, piecing together the raw and found materials, she finds the logic of each piece.