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Commissioned work including portraiture, large scale historical production, as well as certain varying studio-selected series work are produced. Shows include local charity participation, formal and informal gallery inclusion, and online presentations. Contact at bryan@ bryanmolloy art.com.
Cooking is a way the artist maintains nutritional and creative discipline while away from the easel. Eat small French-style portions. Bon Appétit!
Cooking is a way the artist maintains nutritional and creative discipline while away from the easel. Eat small French-style portions. Bon Appétit!
[ 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 massart.edu. ]
2008- 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.
2011- ”I am a Boston educated representational Impressionist: a style I refer
to as Boston Impressionism. The appreciation of the world around me as it
affects me intimately is the source of my inspiration and as a result my subjects
tend to be interpretations of this. I also have a strong belief, related to
the former issue, in supporting and strengthening the people and things which
give structure to the things around me which I am indebted to and depend on
daily such as the historical and political structure of the community I am
a part of. My goal is to be as Anton Chekov said, "…a free artist and nothing
else."
”I am not a plein air painter. Like those I emulate; the Renaissance
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
Cooking is a way the artist maintains nutritional and creative discipline while away from the easel. Eat small French-style portions. Bon Appétit!
Cooking is a way the artist maintains nutritional and creative discipline while away from the easel. Eat small French-style portions. Bon Appétit!