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RUGBY#5: VICTORY MUDSLIDE; oil on canvas, 20" x 24"
Central PA Magazine (WITF/ PBS) Publish -es Review
Select small works will be on display @ the Harrisburg County Courthouse Register of Deeds and Wills offices from February 1st to May 1st, 2009.
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.
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)
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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
(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...
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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.
"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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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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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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This portrait was done over summer break my second year in college.
"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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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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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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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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