Mark Mulroney
Dicecream Magazine🔳Mark Mulroney (born 1973) is an American painter.
Mark Mulroney’s visual and sculptural work depicts a body in gross excess: engorged genitalia, numerous oozing bodily fluids, and characters in between ecstatic and sadistic states. Explicitly sexual and mostly NSFW, Mulroney’s work is itself refreshingly hyper and perverse, reinforced by his surprisingly succinct and brightly colored artist statement: “People don’t want to die, and they want to have sex.”
“Almost all art is about looking at death and trying to defy it somehow,” says Mark Mulroney. He considers sex and gore as primary means of defiance, and accordingly, guts, exaggerated genitalia, bloody wounds, and well-endowed pin-up girls take center stage in his surrealistic, comic-style paintings. Take for instance “Sent Upstate” (2011), a series equally inspired by Playboy and Mulroney’s traumatic Catholic upbringing.
One untitled painting depicts a bikini-clad voluptuous woman holding a knife in one hand, and the gory flesh cut from a naked man hanging Christ-like from an invisible structure, in the other.
Mulroney provides levity in an art universe choking with sober academia. Depending on your mental state at the time, any piece could cause an onslaught of laughter or of tears.
His playful inventiveness acts as a flashback to youthful fantasies fraught with appendageal obsessions and a reveling in cartoon gore and guts. Though his artist statement addresses adult conundrums, his art conjures memories of a less media-driven existence, while providing twisted amusement.
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