Biography

MARTIN MULL

1943 – 2024

Carl Hammer Gallery sadly announces the recent passing of artist/musician/actor/comedian Martin Mull. To describe this man as “talented” would be an understatement of major proportions, as he distinguished himself in multiple arenas of the American arts and entertainment scene for more than 50 years. As an actor, comedian, recording artist, and painter, the trail of accomplishment is more than apparent in all of that to which he applied himself after graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1965.  As a painter, Mull filled his canvases with suggestive and contradictory imagery.  Employing the tension of disparate images (long the artist’s trademark), content and the physicality of his imagery were integrated into the substance of all that he produced. The isolation of and definition given to these forms presents us a passageway into remembering time past. Mull skillfully anticipated our vulnerability for accepting without really knowing and our looking back without really seeing. The multi-talented genius of the man, both as an artist/actor, superbly demonstrates his skillful ability to employ forceful, careful artistic linkage specific to our own witnessing of past personal life experiences. Mull’s interpretive brilliance, demonstrating his understanding of the human life experience, shall certainly be missed.