Former Nino Mier Senior Director to Open Her Own Gallery in Dealer’s Closed LA Spaces

Megan Mulrooney, a former senior director at Nino Mier Gallery, will open her open gallery in three spaces in Los Angeles previously run by her former employer.

“As a born-and-raised Angeleno, I seek for my gallery to embody the creative spirit of Los Angeles and its rich artistic traditions,” Mulrooney told ARTnews in an email. “I’m eager to cultivate a space that fosters community and intergenerational dialogues, bringing together established and emerging artists to showcase not only their varied practices, but their curatorial visions as well.” ..

-ALEX GREENBERGER
July 4, 2024

Megan Mulrooney, a former director at Nino Mier, will open her own gallery in his old Los Angeles space

A native of Los Angeles, Mulrooney aims to highlight emerging and mid-career artists at her eponymous gallery…

-Carlie Porterfield
July 4, 2024

Meet the Emerging Women Gallerists Shaping the L.A. Art Scene

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Megan Mulrooney: Reviving the Gallery Magic.

Fostering a refreshing and dynamic atmosphere, Megan Mulrooney launches a new female-led gallery in West Hollywood with inaugural exhibitions by artists Marin Majić and Piper Bangs.

-Maya Garabedian / MutualArt
Sep 17, 2024

Piper Bangs Just Graduated From College. Now Her Fantastical Fruit Paintings Are Captivating the Art World

We spoke with the 21-year-old painter about her debut show at the just-opened Megan Mulrooney gallery in Los Angeles.

- Annikka Olsen
September 12, 2024

Marin Majić's Hazy, Dark Portals Inhabit Megan Mulrooney's New LA Space

Marin Majić’s mixed media canvases emit and absorb light at once. These hazy, dark portals shimmer with sentimentality, yet glower with ennui. Water rushes through surreal scenes in the Frankfurt-born Croatian artist’s latest works, and celestial light emanates from parties. Majić’s meticulously refined method alternatively obscures and reveals, mirroring the dualities he’s dealing with. Like, how is the world in such turmoil while he’s celebrating the birth of a child? Maybe you’ve seen that Tumblr post with the teenage girl’s diary entry from July 20, 1969: “Got rhyme put in my handbag from someone who’s apparently got a crush on me. It’s Nicholas I think. UGH. Man landed on the moon.” Despite world history, all of our everyday lives roll on.

- Vittoria Benzine
September 21, 2024

THE ART MARKET
Stolen Titian found at bus stop sells for £15mn

…Megan Mulrooney is taking over three of the Los Angeles spaces run by her previous employer, Nino Mier Gallery, and will open under her own name in September. The adjacent West Hollywood galleries include a 5,000 sq ft space…

-Melanie Gerlis
July 3, 2024

Marin Majic and the "Dawning" of New Day
There was a moment there a few years back when realism was at a height, artists digging deep and finding the human form and the body needed to be as distinguished and clear as possible. Recently, someone asked me what I thought of painting post-pandemic, and I said "hazy, as if we are desperate to capture a memory." And I used Marin Majić's work as an example. Dawning, on view at Megan Mulrooney's new space in place of Nino Mier's quick exit from LA, is an immersive show, full of beautifully rendered, interstellar-themed, works of dreams and the cosmos and very much in the mood of a hazy memory of a time that may have happened. Dawn evokes a new beginning, something new on the horizon, a new day. And here, I get the sense of remaking what was to what could be, and that Marin made this at the time of the birth of his second child seems so vital to what the viewer sees. Life as a blur, but very real and a chance to begin again.

—Evan Pricco
October 23, 2024

3 New Art Galleries Opening This Fall, From Manhattan to Tokyo

Destinations like Pace Tokyo and Megan Mulrooney are gearing up for major debuts. Here's what to expect.

...Though the details came together quickly, Megan Mulrooney says the plan to strike out had been percolating for a while. Snapping up the shuttered spaces enabled her to avoid a protracted hunt for property and set a fast-approaching September 14 opening...

-Julie Belcove
September 8 ,2024

Los Angeles art exhibitions: the best shows to see in September

Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from Marin Majic at the new Megan Mulrooney Gallery to Richard Orlinski's sculptures on Rodeo Drive

-Carole Dixon
September 10, 2024

GALLERY ROUNDS: Piper Bangs Megan Mulrooney Gallery by Lauren Guilford | Sep 16, 2024

Michael Bauer at Megan Mulrooney