A one-afternoon group AAH exhibition at the Sinon Mansion, located at 4345 Fargreen
Road, just off Linglestown Rd., not far from Uptown Harrisburg. Sunday, January
29, from 1 to 4 PM
AAH 1/13- 2/16
"Seth as Telegraph Operator"
"JACK 2"
—Upstairs Sales Gallery
—Works for Sale
—Sales Gallery
—Online South African Gallery
Bryan
Molloy
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Born/
Boston, MA; 1974
Bachelor of Fine Arts
MassArt; Boston, MA; USA
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Massachusetts College of Art and Design is one of the top colleges of its kind
in the United States. Founded in 1873, MassArt has a legacy of leadership as
the only independent public college of art and design in the country and the
nation’s first art school to grant a degree. The college offers a comprehensive
range of baccalaureate and graduate degrees in art and design, all taught by
world-class faculty, along with continuing education and youth programs designed
to encourage individual creativity. Whether at home in Boston or on the other
side of the globe, the artists and designers of MassArt are dedicated to making
a difference in their communities and around the world. For more information,
visit
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Studied under/
George Nick,
Irena
Roman, Ron Hayes, Floyd Covert, Don Brandt and many others.
Work held in Collections/
U.S., Brazil, England, Johannesburg South Africa,
Hershey
Co., NFL Eagles' LeSean McCoy, former Governor Rendell of Pennsylvania,
former Mayor Reed of Harrisburg,
various
PA State Representatives,, Tracey and Bob Meloni, (the parents of Christopher
Meloni,
(Law&Order:
SVU)),
Metro Bank,
RNC
2008 Palin run, and many more.
At MassArt, on the advice of Professor Ron Hayes (co-developer of
Windsor
& Newton's Acrylic formula), Bryan learned, for the owners and collectors
of his work, to produce legacy quality
investment art of paramount
calibre. Molloy Studios uses the highest quality
Windsor
& Newton paints, Rembrandt paints, and heavy-duty, wagon-grade canvas. Molloy
works closely with third-generation Framer, Rick Walker of
Walker's
Framing. This ensures that a work by Bryan Thomas Molloy will last a minimum
of 400 years, as an heirloom to many.
Currently, Molloy is working in an impressionist- realism style, painting everything
from landscapes, portraits, and private commissions. Bryan donates his work
and his time regularly to charities such as
Habitat
for Humanity,
Aids Community Alliance,
United CerebralPalsy,
Whitaker
Center for Science and the Arts,
Keystone
Human Services,
Art Association of
Harrisburg.
Bryan co-created the popular
ONSE
series of one-night exhibits in local (Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A) restaurants and
other night spots. He volunteered as Event Coordinator for a year.
Bryan is working in
Harrisburg
part-time as a
Gallery Assistant
at the Art Association of Harrisburg. He also takes on private commissions,
portraits, and is painting several personal series, including a series of views
from the
Pennsylvania Turnpike, a
Steelton Steel Mill Series, views
of the Susquehanna River, and a
Rugby
series.
”I am not a plein air painter. Like those I emulate; the Renaisannce Masters,
the French Academic Masters, the English Portrait Masters, and traditional academic
technique; I am a studio painter. The brash elements, unwieldy and delicate
equipment are not well suited, in my opinion, to such a fine operation as painting.
I prefer instead the comfort of my studio, where I can dedicate more of my attention
toward my work… to be absolutely indebted fully to concentration. As with
decent conversation, the speaker is best heard when given one's fullest attention.
I believe in technology. A professor @ MASSART (Irena Roman) said once that
if technology was present in it's current forms @ the time of Michelangelo &
DaVinci, they would have appreciated it's usefulness as a valuable tool to aid
in their endeavors.
My "style" is a product of my education in Boston, combined with my appreciation
of ancient Chinese painting. My parents attended a church to which a majority
of the "flock" were first generation Chinese immigrants,
fresh from the
travel. Resultingly, teachings, methodology and practice (the authorities
there also being Chinese) were imparted to me as through a Chinese filter. In
college @ MASSART, in an “Art of Ancient China” class, the Professor
(a Grad- student from China) was so enamored of my understanding and description
of Zen Buddhist teachings and their influence and evidence in a particular Ancient
Chinese Master's painting— that she begged me to carefully correct the
grammar and polish the presentation of the paper I had written hastily…
so that she could have it published.
MASSART influenced me tremendously. Especially
with frequent, mandatory trips to the Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard's Fogg and
Peabody Museums, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Boston's severely
defined stoic cultural prowess did too. But much more influential, to me however,
was the regional stress Boston placed upon her beloved “supertalent”
John Singer Sargent (and the Impressionist wake of devotion found in his hereafter)!
A fast-drawn riptide of which, tempered and tossed me, most affectionately in
that resulting tsunami. I therefore am most definitely a
product of my environment—
I emulate Sargent (and the Kennedy boys) to the best of my ability. And not
only Sargent, of course... his compatriots Dennis Miller Bunker, the Expatriates
of that period; Whistler and the like. I then followed the tree's branch the
way back to Diégo Velázquez and found Goya, spent a moment's respite
with Edvard Münch and the Expressionists, dabbled intellectually with Umbérto
Boccioni and the Futurists. Then after much searching and intense study, my
heart felt at home, and I began to waddle my brush. Waddling I, now as then,
through strange Oriental, Calligraphic, Expressionist, Impressionist finesses.
Goya's small Expressionistic figures in the background of certain of his works,
painted with merely three few strokes, are forever reeling and reveling in the
back of my mind.”
—Bryan Molloy
