"Bulletin Boards" Poster and Travel Scenic Postcard Collection 2001
Untitled - Experiment with Light Line Sketch 2001

The series "Untitled (Experiment with Light)" explores light. Glass object sketches, 2008-09. Matt Mullican's solo exhibition "Five x Fve" is on display at the Nelson-Freeman Gallery from March 7 to April 11. Matt Mullican is one of the most representative American artists of the 1980s. His entire career has developed around the foundational theory of "Five Worlds," manifested through different colors, symbolic systems, signs, and graphics that reflect five basic concepts of the world. First, the "Basic World": representing nature and elements, symbolized by green. The "Non-Categorical World": relationships in daily life and our living environment, represented by blue. The "Categorical World": manifestation of scientific and artistic consciousness, represented by yellow. The "Language World": meaning of symbols, language, and codes, represented by black and white. The "Subjective World": reflecting psychological relationships between the categorical and non-categorical worlds, represented by red.

In this exhibition, Matt Mullican uses this as a structure, dividing the gallery into five areas. Each space presents a mix of five different series. The "Learning from That Person's Work (Rubbing)" series involves creation based on others' consciousness, attempting to approach a new definition of "reality" and inviting people to contemplate fundamental questions of existence. "Learning from That Person's Work" is a large-format composite image series constructed from nine elements of other-consciousness, transferred onto canvas via rubbing to express love, beauty, work, and truth. This is followed by the "Evolving Charts, Stained Glass" series and the "Untitled (Chart on Glass Pieces)" series.

The "Untitled (Experiment with Light)" series continues to explore light, featuring crystals and collages across five types of cosmological elements. Additionally, the "Bulletin Boards" series includes posters, travel landscape postcard collections, and two sketchbook series. Through these numbers, patterns, text, and lines, we understand the evolution of the artist's use of such tools. Text, numbers, patterns, and codes constantly appear, overlapping and being interpreted, leading people toward a world of reality and imagination.