Paul Kyle Gallery is pleased to present Echoes, our second exhibition with Amsterdam-based artist Daniel Mullen, opening April 18, 2026. This new body of work is structured for slow looking. The paintings read differently across distance and proximity, allowing perception to adjust as the viewer moves through space.

“Echoes is a proposition through painting that aims to hold perception open.” What first appears as a field of light gradually discloses its architecture, and the material facts of the painting—linen, pressure, and deposit—continue to produce an image that behaves like light. The work returns as after-image anddelayed clarity, shifting the boundary between surface and space.

Mullen develops each painting through a fixed framework governing tone, spacing, pressure, and chroma. While the framework remains consistent, it is continually tested and recalibrated, allowing outcomes to diverge from one painting to the next. Linen plays an active role in this process: paint embeds into the weave, and colour oscillates between material presence and optical effect.

Within the paintings’ internal architecture, light enters, slows, and gathers; colour follows as trace and consequence. As viewers move closer, structure becomes increasingly legible, and orientation begins to shift. The work functions like “an epilogue encountered without its narrative—an after-effect that establishes tone while the event itself remains elsewhere.” Held between surface and space, the paintings extend the encounter beyond the canvas.

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