Sidney Mullis, "Sand Tree"
Sand, black food coloring, rock, 8x5x8”, 2020.
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BIO
Sidney Mullis is a sculptor based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves go in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Using playground sand, wax, food dye, and olive pits, Mullis creates this invented landscape to resurrect childlike attitudes, imagination, and logic. Mullis has exhibited internationally in Berlin, Tokyo, England, and Croatia. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), Bucknell University (PA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine. Mullis is a tutor for children struggling with dyslexia and an art fabricator for blue-chip gallery artists.
STATEMENT
Sidney Mullis is building a make-believe forest to recenter playful attitudes and imaginative habits of being that are largely stifled in adulthood. The forest—often a transformational space in children’s stories—is built of many parts that come together in sculptural installations. Mullis uses sand as a sculptural material to revisit memories playing in sand boxes and building sandcastles on the beach. In her studio, the sand is stirred into an invented mixture and applied to forms by hand. Once dry, these sand sculptures do not crumble or wash away with the ocean. Mullis puts food that has been in her mouth into the work. Olive pits—saved from eating black olives—punctuate sand surfaces. These inert pits are regularly misidentified as seeds and blur the question, “what does it take to make something or someone grow? What can be a germinating force?”
Sand, black food coloring, rock, 8x5x8”, 2020.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Sidney Mullis is a sculptor based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves go in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Using playground sand, wax, food dye, and olive pits, Mullis creates this invented landscape to resurrect childlike attitudes, imagination, and logic. Mullis has exhibited internationally in Berlin, Tokyo, England, and Croatia. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), Bucknell University (PA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine. Mullis is a tutor for children struggling with dyslexia and an art fabricator for blue-chip gallery artists.
STATEMENT
Sidney Mullis is building a make-believe forest to recenter playful attitudes and imaginative habits of being that are largely stifled in adulthood. The forest—often a transformational space in children’s stories—is built of many parts that come together in sculptural installations. Mullis uses sand as a sculptural material to revisit memories playing in sand boxes and building sandcastles on the beach. In her studio, the sand is stirred into an invented mixture and applied to forms by hand. Once dry, these sand sculptures do not crumble or wash away with the ocean. Mullis puts food that has been in her mouth into the work. Olive pits—saved from eating black olives—punctuate sand surfaces. These inert pits are regularly misidentified as seeds and blur the question, “what does it take to make something or someone grow? What can be a germinating force?”
Sand, black food coloring, rock, 8x5x8”, 2020.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED IN PRICE. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR AN ESTIMATE.
BIO
Sidney Mullis is a sculptor based in Pittsburgh, PA. She is building a make-believe forest to find where childhood selves go in adulthood and if it is possible to bring them back. Using playground sand, wax, food dye, and olive pits, Mullis creates this invented landscape to resurrect childlike attitudes, imagination, and logic. Mullis has exhibited internationally in Berlin, Tokyo, England, and Croatia. Solo shows include the Leslie Lohman Museum (NYC), Wick Gallery (NYC), Bunker Projects (PA), Neon Heater Gallery (OH), Bucknell University (PA), and more. She has been an artist-in-residence at The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, The Wassaic Project, Women’s Studio Workshop, Ox-Bow School of Art, among others. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Young Space, Maake Magazine, De:Formal, and Sculpture Magazine. Mullis is a tutor for children struggling with dyslexia and an art fabricator for blue-chip gallery artists.
STATEMENT
Sidney Mullis is building a make-believe forest to recenter playful attitudes and imaginative habits of being that are largely stifled in adulthood. The forest—often a transformational space in children’s stories—is built of many parts that come together in sculptural installations. Mullis uses sand as a sculptural material to revisit memories playing in sand boxes and building sandcastles on the beach. In her studio, the sand is stirred into an invented mixture and applied to forms by hand. Once dry, these sand sculptures do not crumble or wash away with the ocean. Mullis puts food that has been in her mouth into the work. Olive pits—saved from eating black olives—punctuate sand surfaces. These inert pits are regularly misidentified as seeds and blur the question, “what does it take to make something or someone grow? What can be a germinating force?”