{"id":64227,"date":"2025-05-01T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T00:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64227\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T00:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T00:00:14","slug":"metaphysical-portals-emerge-within-forests-in-eli-mcmullens-otherworldly-paintings-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/64227\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysical Portals Emerge Within Forests in Eli McMullen&#8217;s Otherworldly Paintings \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roaming the metaphysical spaces between dreams and reality, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elimcmullen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eli McMullen<\/a> draws on the familiarity of suburban and wooded landscapes to bid us into dreamlike worlds. Plumbing the interplay of perception and imagination, his acrylic paintings invite us into moments of wonder and transcendence.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond, Virginia-based artist\u2019s forthcoming solo exhibition, Sleep Walk at <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkspaceprojects.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thinkspace Projects<\/a>, explores relationships between nostalgia, spirituality, nature, and psychological phenomena. He celebrates \u201cfleeting moments that feel suspended in time, glimmers that quietly urge to be searched,\u201d the gallery says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-1-960x1209.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454445\"  \/>\u201cDesire Path Finder\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 16 \u00d7 20 inches<\/p>\n<p>Sleep Walk welcomes viewers into nighttime forest scenes that glow with geometric light forms, altar-like architecture, and prismatic reflections. Titles like \u201cDesire Path Finder,\u201d \u201cLiminal Bridge,\u201d and \u201cKismet Gateway\u201d highlight the essence of links, portals, metamorphoses, and in-between spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The show runs May 3 to 24 in Los Angeles. See more on McMullen\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elimcmullen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elimcmullen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-3-960x1150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454447\"  \/>\u201cDream Weaver\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 20 \u00d7 24 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-4-960x727.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454448\"  \/>\u201cEmbers Rest\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 18 \u00d7 24 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-2-960x1196.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454446\"  \/>\u201cDraped Shrine\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 11 \u00d7 14 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-8-960x1203.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454452\"  \/>\u201cLiminal Bridge\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 16 \u00d7 20 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-5-960x1223.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454449\"  \/>\u201cFractal Grove\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 11 \u00d7 14 inches<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mcmullen-7-960x1200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-454451\"  \/>\u201cKismet Gateway\u201d (2025), acrylic on panel, 16 \u00d7 20 inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do stories and artists like this matter to you?<\/strong> Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.local\/members\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"118516\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Member<\/a> now, and support independent arts publishing.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hide advertising<\/li>\n<li>Save your favorite articles<\/li>\n<li>Get 15% off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/colossal.shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colossal Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Receive members-only newsletter<\/li>\n<li>Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roaming the metaphysical spaces between dreams and reality, Eli McMullen draws on the familiarity of suburban and wooded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,4022,33004,77,33005,4065,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-64227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-eli-mcmullen","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-geometric","14":"tag-painting","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114429639293622207","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}