T.J. Mueller
ART FROM ABOVE®
A meditation on humanity’s desire to monumentalize itself when seen from a distance where individuals disappear.
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Executed entirely in oil and spanning six to nine feet in scale, this single, unified series represents T. J. Mueller’s sustained engagement with the New Seven Wonders of the World. Mueller traveled to each site, capturing high-resolution aerial imagery before returning to his U.S. studio to undertake the slow, deliberate labor of painting.
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What emerges are monumental landscapes seen from above—works that compress vast geographies into a single frame while expanding the viewer’s sense of scale. Rendered with extraordinary precision, the paintings invite close inspection even as they overwhelm from a distance, revealing a world where architectural ambition and natural form converge.
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Bound together as one continuous body of work, the series exists at the intersection of pilgrimage and perspective, technology and tradition. Through oil paint, an ancient medium, Mueller transforms contemporary aerial vision into enduring images that ask us to reconsider how humanity marks the earth, and how those marks appear when viewed from a height where borders, time, and individual presence begin to dissolve.
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SEVEN NEW WONDERS OF THE WORLD
OTHER WORLDLY VIEWS
In 2018, T. J. Mueller inscribed a new chapter in contemporary art by undertaking an ambitious series of monumental oil paintings depicting the New Seven Wonders of the World, each revealed from a rare and exhilarating bird’s-eye view.
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Traveling to every site, Mueller captured the earth from above through high-resolution aerial photography, then returned to his U.S. studio to translate these fleeting moments into enduring paint. From this union of exploration and technology emerged works of extraordinary scale and precision; landscapes rendered with near-microscopic clarity, where human achievement and natural grandeur dissolve into a single, breath-held vision.
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The series stands as both a record of pilgrimage and a meditation on perspective: how the world, when seen from above, becomes at once vast, fragile, and unified.