MARTIN MULL
BORN
America
EDUCATION
1967 Rhode Island
School of Design, M.F.A.
1965 Rhode Island
School of Design, B.F.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Patricia Faure
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
David Beitzel Gallery, New York,
NY
2000
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rena Bransten Gallery, San
Francisco, CA
1999
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
1998
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Greenville County Museum of Art,
Greenville, SC., traveled to Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1997
Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
David Beitzel Gallery, New York,
NY
1996 Works on
Paper, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
Exurbia, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Martin Mull: Recent Watercolors,
David Betizel Gallery, New York, NY
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995
Martin Mull: Selected Paintings,
Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
A Walk In the Park, David
Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Project Room, New York, NY
1994
Childhood Dreams, Adult Dilemmas, Dorothy
Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
1992 Barbara Singer Gallery, Boston, MA
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest, NC
Helander Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
1984 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA
1982 Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2003 Martin Mull and Jim Dine, The Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2002
Pasted On: A Survey of Collage Strategies, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago
2000 Carl
Hammer 2000, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Knowing Children, David Beitzel
Gallery, New York, NY
The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Precious, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Eclectic
Collaborative, FACT Art Exhibition Space, Laguna Beach, CA
1996 Referencing
Innocence/Not, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College,
Los Angeles, CA
A Selection of Classics,
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Horse Show, curated by
Sylvia White, Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
1995 Group Show,
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
Collage in the 20th
Century, curated by Peter Frank, Louis Stern Fine Arts,
Los Angeles, CA
1994 Group Show,
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Fourth Newport Biennial “Southern
California 1993”, Newport Beach, CA
Group Show, David Beitzel
Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Dune Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ten Artists from the West Cost, Total Museum of Contemporary Art,
Seoul, Korea
1993
Laughing Matters, LA Municipal
Art Gallery/Barnsdall Art Park Los Angeles, CA
Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Museum of Art, University
of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Humor and Art, Mount St.
Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Group Show,
Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
1990 Group Show,
Helander Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
1983 Group Show,
Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New
York, NY
Toys, Greenville County Museum
of Art, Greenville, SC
1973 Eat Art,
Cincinnati Institute of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH
Smart Ducky, Boston Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Umbrella of Fitchburg, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
1972 Flush with the
Walls, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1965 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of
Design, Rome, Italy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Schwendener, Martha, “Reviews”, Artforum, April, 2001
Amy, Michael, “Reviews”, Art in America,
March 2000
Brunetti, John, “Interview: Martin Mull”,
New Art Examiner, May 2000
Clarkron, David, “Reviews”,
Flash Art, March/April, 1996
Alperstein, Ellen, “The Art of
Martin Mull”, Ambassador, January, 1996
Paintings, Drawings and Words,
forward by Bruce Guenther, published by
Journey Editions,
1995
Utter, Douglas Max, “Mulling
Things Over at the Center”, The Cleveland Free
Times,
June, 1995
Gimelson, Deborah, “Martin Mulls
Over art”, Art & Antiques, June, 1995
Litt, Steven, “Mulling Martin’s
art”, The Plain Dealer, Monday, June 12, 1995
Beller, Miles, “In the Slip of the
Exalted”, Art Week Magazine, November, 1994
Morgan, Robert C., “Surface-Depth
Matters”, Cover Magazine, March 1994
Smith, Roberta, “Martin Mull at
David Beitzel Gallery”, The New York Times,
January 28, 1994
Gimelson, Deborah, “Art Review”,
The New York Observer, January 24, 1994
Long, Marion, “Secret Passion”,
Gentleman’s Quarterly, Volume 60, November
1990, pp.
276-277, illustrated.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Art Review”,
Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 1984
Gannon, Dr. Frank, “Saturday
Review Gallery”, Saturday Review,
January/February
1985, pp. 45-49, illustrated
Malone, David, “Martin Mull”,
Airbrush Action, November/December 1985,
pp.
26-33, illustrated
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
The Columbus Museum of Fine Art,
Columbus, Ohio
The Greenville County Museum of
Art, Greenville, South Carolina
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, New York
Total Contemporary Art Museum,
Seoul, Korea
Fine Art Museum of the University
of Arizona
Newport Harbor Art Museum
Gund Collection, Boston, MA
Gramercy Taverne, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield
Village, OH
San Diego Museum of Art, San
Diego, CA
Total Contemporary Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Martin Mull
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Martin Mull |
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Performing at the Boarding House in San Francisco, 1976 Photo: David
Gans |
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Born |
August 18, 1943
(1943-08-18)
(age 67)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Occupation |
Actor, comedian, painter, musician |
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Years active |
1972–present |
Martin Mull
(born August 18, 1943) is an American actor who has starred in his own
television sitcom and acted in prominent films. He is also a comedian, painter,
and recording artist. He is a satirist and incorporates his comedic sense into
all of his work.
Early years and education
Mull was born in
Chicago, Illinois, and
raised in
North Ridgeville, Ohio,
from age 2 to 15 years old, when his family moved to
New Canaan, Connecticut,
where he attended and graduated from public high school.[1]
He studied painting and went on to graduate from the
Rhode Island School of Design
with a
Bachelor of Fine Arts and
a
Master of Fine Arts in
painting.
Career
Following a period of
stand-up comedy
performances and humorous song recordings including opening for
Frank Zappa at
Austin's
Armadillo World Headquarters
in 1973 and for
Bruce Springsteen at the
Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in October 1974, his first
famous role was as twins Garth Gimble and Barth Gimble in the television
nighttime absurdist
soap opera
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
(1976), which led to
spin-off comedy talk
shows
Fernwood 2-Night
(1977) and
America 2-Night
(1978), in which he played Barth Gimble as talk show host, opposite
Fred Willard as sidekick
Jerry Hubbard. In one episode of
The Golden Girls, he
played a
hippie who was afraid of
the outside world. In the 1970s, he appeared in a series of
Pizza Hut commercials
dealing with various ways to eat a pizza.[citation
needed]
During 1984, Mull starred in a
CBS
sitcom,
Domestic Life, with
Megan Follows playing his
teenaged daughter. He had a long-running role playing the boss of lead character
Roseanne Conner on the TV series
Roseanne. He has
appeared as a guest on the game show
Hollywood Squares,
appearing as the center square in the show's final season. During 2008 and 2009,
Mull guest starred in two episodes of the television series
Gary Unmarried as
Allison's father.[2]


A caricature of
Martin Mull in front of
Hollywood Hills Amphitheater
at
Walt Disney World's
Disney's Hollywood Studios
theme park.
He has acted in
feature films, including:
Recurring roles followed on several
television series:
During the 1980s, Mull starred in a
series of
television commercials
for
Michelob and in a series
of television and
radio commercials for
Red Roof Inn (a chain of
budget-oriented hotels owned at the time by
Accor) during the
mid-1990s. Mull voiced a lazy robot on one episode of the cartoon series
Dexter's Laboratory,
in which he has a rather clueless partner, voiced by
Fred Willard. Mull voiced
the role of
The Evil Cad on
Freakazoid! He has
recently (2003–2007) done the voice of Vlad Masters/Vlad Plasmius on
Danny Phantom.
In 1990, he guest starred in an episode
of
The Golden Girls.
In 1998, he guest starred in an episode
of
The Simpsons.
In late 2004, he portrayed "Gene
Parmesan," a
private investigator who
was better at showing up in strange places in strange disguises than in actually
finding anything out, on the
Fox TV series
Arrested Development.
The episode was called "¡Amigos!".
Despite devoting himself full time to
painting, Martin added many acting credits in 2008, including shows such as
Family Man,
Two and a Half Men,
Law and Order: SVU,
Gary Unmarried,
The New Adventures of Old Christine,
The Bonnie Hunt Show,
and, in 2009, in the viral advert
That's Not Fake.[3],
In the
animated series
Family Guy, the name
of the elementary school is Martin Mull Elementary.
Personal
life
Twice divorced, Mull is married to
singer Wendy Mull.
Discography
- Martin Mull
(1972)
- Martin Mull
and His Fabulous Furniture In Your Living Room!
(1973)
- Normal
(1974)
- In The Soop
With Martin Mull (1974)
- Days Of Wine
And Neuroses (1975)
- I'm Everyone
I've Ever Loved (1977)
- No Hits, Four
Errors- The Best Of Martin Mull (1977)
- Sex and
Violins (1978)
- Near
Perfect/Perfect (1979)
- Mulling it
Over- A Musical Ouvre-View of Martin Mull (1998)
Artworks