AlienNation is a Solo Exhibition by Brian McNulty

Opening Thursday May 14 from 5-9 pm

Continuing May 15 & 16 from 3-7 pm

AlienNation explores what it means to exist as the outsider, feeling alien, othered, displaced, and still searching for connection.

Through recurring symbols like the alien, California poppies, and the Statue of Liberty, this body of work examines identity, survival, and the razor’s edge between being visible and invisible. The alien is a self-portrait, reflecting isolation, transformation, panic, and moving through the world feeling disconnected and out of place, caught between not wanting to live and not being ready to die. Liberty stands as both promise and contradiction, freedom mythologized, fractured, and questioned. Poppies emerge as quiet resilience, symbols of survival blooming through chaos.

The alien paintings were developed alongside a poem presented in the exhibition, grounding the work in a personal narrative that moves between language and image.

Brian McNulty is a multidisciplinary artist from Queens, NY. His practice spans painting, printmaking, poetry, and prose, with each medium amplifying and inspiring the others through rhythm, tension, and emotional rawness. His work engages themes of alienation, disillusionment, politics, mental health, and the ongoing drive toward existential resistance, rebellion, and survival.