Mulcahy Modern has been known primarily for discovering and establishing emerging artists who developed into some of the most important artists working today with representation in museums, including our own Dallas Museum of Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and many of the most interesting private collections. For fourteen years, Mulcahy Modern has presented a surprising mix of fresh exhibitions of artists who were chosen based on their intent to make new statements in their work with each successive body of work.
Our twin mission of discovery and development through exhibitions devoted exclusively to each artist has consistently set Mulcahy Modern apart from most commercial gallery two-person and group exhibition presentations. In addition to the gallery's principle focus on cutting-edge contemporary art, the gallery has researched, funded and mounted historical exhibitions of photography of under-recognized documentary photographers of the modern period, with an emphasis on Brazilian post-war photography in particular (Marcel Gautherot, Jean Manzon and Jose Medeiros in their first United States exhibitions).
Current 2008 curatorial projects include an exhibition of conflict photography co-curated with Charles Dee Mitchell and a solo exhibition of LeRoy Grannis' documentray photography of the birth of the American surf subculture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Reviews of Mulcahy Modern exhibitions from 1994 to 2007 regularly appeared in publications including The Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, F!D Luxe, Papercity, Artl!es, Glasstire.com, Dallas Observer, Texas Highways and D Magazine as well as national publications such as Art in America, ARTnews, Art Papers, LA's Coagula art journal, Harper's Magazine, Elle Magazine and Art & Antiques.