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RUGBY#5: VICTORY MUDSLIDE; oil on canvas, 20" x 24"

Central PA Magazine (WITF/ PBS) Publish -es Review

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     This website was designed and constructed by Bryan Thomas Molloy. It is a compilation of design motifs lifted from old newspapers; especially, the "Independent Gazette"(1788), and the layout is patterned after the New York Times, Monday, November 11, 1872 front-page-spread announcing the Boston Fire; still burning as the ink on the Times dried; a beautiful piece of design and history.

   Select small works will be on display @ the Harrisburg County Courthouse Register of Deeds and Wills offices from February 1st to May 1st, 2009.

M O L L O Y was born in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.. Bryan studied under George Nick, Irena Roman, and other well known artists while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art. Molloy has work in collections in the U.S., Brazil, Germany, and England. Among them: Hershey Co., the Governor of Pennsylvania, the Mayor of Harrisburg, and the parents of Chris Meloni (Law&Order:SVU). [more]blog

     As a product of his time @ the Art Association of Harrisburg, he created the popular ONSE series of one-night exhibits in local (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A) restaurants and other night spots. He volunteered his time and accepted no compensation, handling all promotion and scheduling of this new program himself. This effort resulted in a phenomenal success, with the first event gathering one of the largest Gallery crowds in Harrisburg ever. The second show, brought much-needed attention to Autism and featured a photographer who is Autistic. He did many interviews with local news stations; multiple camera-crews were in attendance, televising each event.[more]
    The effort quickly brought several thousand dollars to benefit the struggling Art Association, inspired imitators and much greator involvement in general, to the growth of the arts and cultural development of Central Pennsylvania. After a year Bryan turned over coordinating responsibilities to other artists, sharing the opportunity to take the program in many new directions and inspire new levels of community involvement and participation in the Arts. Bryan also created the Web for Artists Program for the 80 year-old non-profit Art Association of Harrisburg to offer affordable web sites to artist-members as well as to stress the importance of the development of a practical, culturally-rich on-line community.[beginning]

   Currently, Molloy is  working in an impressionistic style, painting everything from landscapes, portraits, and many private commissions. He exhibits most seriously online, @ this site as well as many others such as Southafricanartists.com and myartprofile (England). Bryan donates his work and his time regularly to charities such as Habitat for Humanity, Aids Community Alliance, United Cerebal Palsy, Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Hershey's ChocolateFest to benefit Keystone Human Services, the Art Association of Harrisburg and also works part-time as a Gallery Assistant @ The Art Association of Harrisburg. [more]
    It is @ MassArt, on the advice of Professor Ron Hayes (co-developer of Windsor & Newton's Acrylic paint formula), that he understood it as his duty as an artist to take ultimate responsibility for his Work, and the owners and Collectors of it, to produce disciplined, legacy-quality investment art of paramount calibre. Molloy Studios uses the highest quality Windsor & Newton paints, Rembrandt paints, and thick, wagon-grade canvas, always working closely with third-generation Framer, Rick Walker of Walker's Framing and restoration. This ensures that a work by Bryan Thomas Molloy will last a minimum of 400 years and remain an heirloom to many.[more]

Request a Commission

    If you would like to submit(email) a photo of your family, child, self, home, favorite landscape or vacation photo, please attach it in an email by clicking the "U.S.Seal" on the left-hand side of the page or on the link above. A contract will be sent to you which you may sign and return. A 'BUY NOW' button will be placed next to the photo to be painted on the CURRENT COMMISSIONS page. Work will begin as payment is received. Stages of the work's progress will be posted on that same page. Pay for each stage as it is completed- be sure to check regularly to see if your next stage is completed. You may pay for each stage until your work is complete in the artist's opinion, or you may opt to have the work in any stage of completeness sent to you.

    Over the past hundred and thirty years, the paintings in that index [Mei Moses Fine Art Index] have outperformed bonds by a wide margin, and over the past fifty years they’ve performed about as well as stocks, too.

- The New Yorker Magazine

-THE PATRIOT NEWS

  

     "I am not a plein air painter. Like the 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.   [more]

 

 

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As with decent conversation, the speaker is best heard when given one's fullest attention. 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)   [more]
were imparted to me as through a chinese filter. In college in an oriental art class the professor, a grad student from China, was so enamored of my understanding and description of Zen Buddist teachings and their influence and evidence in chinese paintings of a certain era, that she begged to have a paper I had written on the subject published.   MASSART influenced me tremendously with required trips to the MFA Boston and the Isabella Gardener.[more]
Boston's severely defined cultural distinctness did too. But more influential, the regional stress of Boston upon its beloved "supertalent" John Singer Sargent (and the Impressionist wake of devotion found in his hereafter) tempered and tossed me most affectionately in that tsunami. I therefore am most definitely a product of my environment; I emulate Sargent and the Kennedy boys to the best of my ability.  [more]
And not only Sargent, of course, his compatriots Dennis Miller Bunker and the Expatriots of that period, Whistler and the like. I followed the tree's branch the way back to Diego Velazquez and found Goya, spent a moment's respite with Edvard Munch and the Expressionists, dabbled intellectually with Boccioni and the Futurists, and then after much searching and intense study my heart felt at home and I began to waddle my brush, as I still do,  [more]
through strange oriental, calligraphic, expressionist, impressionist finesses. Goya's small expressionistic figures in the background of certain of his works, painted with three- strokes, are forever reeling and reveling in the back of my mind.      I attempt to convey a sense of ease and light that may distract the viewer from the hardships of that day and evoke instead fond memories of recreation and relaxation;   [more]
to thoughts of love and the enjoyment of life. I paint to express my appreciation of my surroundings."

Pumpkins for Politics

         Although I am non-partisan and apolitical (I don't believe artists can be as effective in their objectivity when they are publicly partisan). I painted pumpkins for the Palin Rally in York. I got a call Wednesday evening (10/29/2008) to do a fifteen foot by nine foot canvas for the Republican campaign rally on Friday in York, PA, to which Sarah Palin was guest speaker...

 

"Man with Beard"; 1995, Graphite, 11" x 14"

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    This is a portrait of an art school model who posed for a portrait drawing class I took in one of my years in college.

 

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"Little Girl with a Purple Soul"; 2004, Oil, 18" x 24"

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       This piece is of the neice of an autistic boy I lived with and helped care for in Virginia about 2003. I painted it as a gift for his family when I first moved to Pennsylvania.

 

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"Portrait of a Black Woman"; 1994, Graphite, 12" x 16"

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      This is a portrait of an art school model who posed for a portrait drawing class I took in one of my years in college.

 

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"Self-Portrait with Earring"; 1994, Graphite, 8" x 10"

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        This portrait was done over summer break my first year in college. I had turned my desk lamp upside-down to get the underlit affect.

 

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"Self Portrait with Ball"; 1992, Conte, 18" x 24"

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        This portrait was done over summer break my second year in college.

 

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"My Cousin Nicky"; 1996, colored pencil and ink, 4" x 6"

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           My aunt Denise commissioned this from me of her son, I added the suit jacket and the bow-tie, I thought it fit his very proper expression.

 

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"My Uncle John as Rodin's 'Thinker'"; 1994, Oil, 16" x 20"

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         On thanksgiving day my third year @ MassArt I took this picture of my uncle making a joke about my being in art school and I threatened that I would paint it. When the picture was developed I thought it really would make a nice painting. I gave it to my uncle for Christmas.

 

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"Old Oriental Man"; 1992, Graphite, 8" x 10"

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         This is an old man, @ the time, the oldest in the world. I drew it as part of an assignment for my color theory class with Professor Don Brandt, my first year in college

 

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"The Influence of Fear on Childhood Development"; 1995, graphite, 18" x 24"

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     This drawing, done my fourth year in college, depicts a child playing with the light of innocence as the face of fear looms in the background. The child is unaware of its existance, and so unaffected. The face in the background is an adaptation of the iceman found in the Alps and depicted in TIME magazine. I gave it to my father.

 

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"Grandpa, Thomas Patrick Molloy"; 2000, Oil, 20" x 30"

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