....My work explores the experiential qualities of form. For the last two years I have been creating sculptural wall installations that allude to organic and human maturation that conveys both strength and vulnerability. In earlier work, I evoked the rituals of daily life and memory through installations of commonplace objects and tools. These earlier sculptures were fabricated in hardware cloth or wire screen, transparent materials that made the forms not quite solid, nor functional. My site-specific outdoor sculpture I have created are often commentary on how we experience nature while walking through a landscape, our mind moving in and out of the present, being too preoccupied with our own thoughts to see what is directly in front of us.

Joan Mullen received her BFA at The Maryland Institute, College of Art
and her MFA at Mason Gross School Of The Arts, Rutgers University.
She is an adjunct fine arts professor at Bridgewater State College.
Ms. Mullen was recently an Art Tutor at Mather House, Harvard University
where she exhibited her sculpture at the Three Columns Gallery. Last year
her work was included in the Inaugural Exhibition of the Arsenal Center for
the Arts and the RED exhibition at the University Place Gallery in Harvard
Square. Her sculpture, To Hold is presently at Newtonville Books. She has
participated in various outdoor sculpture exhibitions and creates site-specific
installation sculpture and commissioned work.