Eli McMullen is a multidisciplinary painter and muralist based mostly in Richmond, Virginia, who earned a BFA in Portray and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth College in 2015. He co-founded Endeavor Studios, a grassroots artist-run house in Richmond’s Jackson Ward arts district that hosted First Friday exhibitions and music occasions.
McMullen’s work fuse life like structure and surroundings with summary shapes, glowing geometric varieties, and unnatural gentle, creating surreal nightscapes devoid of human figures but filled with proof that individuals as soon as handed by means of. He describes his course of as taking actual components from his surroundings — structure, gentle, and feeling — and remixing them into imagined landscapes, calling it “an summary shuffle of the weather.” A lot of his imagery comes from documenting Richmond’s neighborhoods by bicycle, chasing shifting daylight and stumbling into sudden moments that later resurface as ethereal buildings immersed in wilderness.
His acrylic and gouache works have been described as glowing with “dreamy nostalgia,” with neon gentle rising from darkish, moody scenes like winks from a better consciousness. His artwork has appeared on the Virginia Museum of Wonderful Arts, Glave Kocen Gallery, Black Iris Gallery, Talon Gallery, Lump Gallery, and in publications together with Hello-Fructose Journal, Richmond Journal, and The Washington Publish.
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