Hoffman Donahue is pleased to present Marlon Mullen. Comprising new and previously unseen paintings, this solo exhibition is the artist’s first in Los Angeles, and his first since the survey exhibition Projects: Marlon Mullen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2024–2025). Developing over the past four decades, Mullen’s singular practice pulls from the pages of magazines, exhibition announcements, auction catalogues, and books, transforming the familiar visual language of the art world into paintings that hover between recognition and abstraction.

Mullen paints in acrylic on canvas laid flat on his studio table at NIAD (Nurturing Independence through Artistic Development) Art Center, a progressive arts organization in Richmond, CA for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, where Mullen has worked since 1986. Frequently borrowing from the on-site library, he treats his appropriated subjects less as pictures to reproduce and more as material to reorganize. In…