Thomas Müller makes his marks with elegance….

I first came across Thomas Müller’s drawings in Miami two years ago.  With my head awash in the visual onslaught of Art Basel Miami Beach, the (seemingly) informal arrangement of his simply framed drawings in Patrick Heide’s London booth brought welcome relief to a show-weary art consultant.  A closer look, and I was hooked.  Three hours later, and I was dragging my companions back for just one more look.

Born in Frankfurt in 1959, Müller lives and draws in Stuttgart Germany, while exhibiting his work all over the world.  A prolific artist, Müller seems to thrive in the field of experimentation, creating new structures and compositions as a musician would.  Like lyrical scores, these compositions are not illustrations but arrangements that use a personal vocabulary of symbols and marks.  Müller works with a variety of traditional mediums to make these notations.  Oil crayon, acrylic, graphite pencil, watercolor, ballpoint pen and chalk, two or three often used together, find familiar ground on his handmade paper.
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Müller’s urge to make marks is a personal gesture I find beckons the viewer to his work.  Often I find myself scrolling through a file of his work after a long day on the New York gallery beat.  In much the same way, I will look forward to the welcome pause his work offers in the visual heat of Miami art fairs come December.