Signs & symbols produce meaning in a world saturated with images. Logolike notations, enclosed in simple shapes as in the World & Sign tote bag, invoke familiar images we see from international airports to highway insignia. In this cosmology, each color corresponds to different levels of perception: green stands for material, blue for the everyday world, yellow for ideas, white and black for language and red for the subjective.
Matt Mullican is considered a member of the “Pictures Generation”, having studied at CalArts in Los Angeles. He rose to fame in the early 1980s alongside his contemporaries Cindy Sherman, David Salle and Robert Longo.