The Red Toque: Walrus Gala Toronto

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Walrus Gala Toronto

Encaustic work fetches $7500.00 at Walrus Gala

Blanket III

Last night I attended the Walrus Magazine 10 anniversary Gala in Toronto. Many familiar faces in the room, everybody you can imagine from the CBC..Gian Gomeshi, Stuart McLean Amanda Lang ....Also many of Canadas top CEO's and board members. I was lucky enough to sit beside the charming writer/publisher/Canada Council board member Anna Porter. What an amazing event! Great food and wonderful entertainment. Last fall the Walrus approached me for a donation to their silent auction to which I obliged. I donated Blanket III to their cause which supports art and artists in Canada. The piece was offered in a silent auction and fetched $7500.00. Not to shabby!!

Next stop Amsterdam and then off to Delhi.

Detail of Blanket III

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tammyJanuary 24, 2013 at 1:52 PM
super duper awesome....!!!
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LBMWSJanuary 24, 2013 at 2:00 PM
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Congratulations Jeff! What an achievement - and what a fantastic place for this amazing piece of work to NOT GO UN-NOTICED!!!
Safe journey... Love you my brother xoxoxo
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THE WORK

Molloy's work focuses on culture through the use of its stereotypes, traits and artifacts.

Jeff employs a wide variety of distinctive techniques, tools, and personal processes that result in truly unique, instantly recognizable work. Jeff is curious. His creativity shifts and twists in response to his materials. Beeswax, tar, pigments, remnants of human civilization – all react differently to the tools and techniques he employs. Carving, painting, sculpting, applying heat and blunt force all contribute to objects that may resemble paintings, yet may just as easily be mechanical and functional in nature.

To Molloy, line is a physical thing, something that is cut and gouged. His surfaces are built up and scraped away. Jeff uses homemade tools to draw, paint, carve and burnish his surfaces of wax and tar until they reflect their own history.

“I've always believed that experimentation, not technical skill, is at the core of creativity. Artists should be explorers, and the world of art should remain a place without rules or boundaries.” Jeff Molloy

In 1995 encouraged by a photograph of Jasper Johns’ famous encaustic work, Flag, Molloy began to experiment with encaustic. He comments, “I recognized in Johns’ piece a number of aspects that have become paramount in my own work. The impact, power and inherent meaning of cultural objects and how they can be used to evoke emotion and memory...I wanted my work to mimic the real thing but, as an art piece, be more interesting than the motif itself.” Molloy achieves this by tapping into these emotions and memories and presenting them as highly articulated works of art. The encaustic works tread the line between painting and sculpture. Where paintings tend to provide context for their subjects, Molloy’s pieces intentionally strip away everything but the object itself.

“The context for the work is the environment in which it is shown. It just makes sense to me that the space should play a role in the perception of the work,”

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Walrus Gala Toronto

Encaustic work fetches $7500.00 at Walrus Gala

Blanket III

Detail of Blanket III

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Jeff Molloy - Mixed media painting and assemblage

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