The Red Toque: Canadians abroad

Monday, February 11, 2013

Cheeky JACK

PINE Living the Life of Riley.

A rough and ready lumberjack is a chick magnet in India....who knew? JACK seems to have a small fan club already. Apparently if JACK were Muslim he could have up to seven wives......

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Jack Does the Taj

JACK PINE GOES TO THE TAJ MAHAL

JACK HOLDS UP THE TAJ

Traveling as Jack Pine has been a hilarious experience so far. The Indian people seem to have embraced him, so many have offered him special prices for their wares. Indian prices apparently. I've had many comments from the locals and other travelers, mostly about the red toque I'm wearing. "That's the tallest toque I've ever seen'' said the voice behind me in a packed elevator at Schipol airport in Amsterdam. I had the toque in its extended form at the time. Not a surprise that the toque has come in very handy, it has evolved over many years and many heads. My friend Peter spotted me straight away when I arrived at the busy airport in Delhi. Then we hooked up with a friend of a friend from Australia, you guessed it, the toque was provided as the descriptor. No worries mate. I'm not going to blend in so why bother trying.

JACK IN FRONT OF TAJ MAHAL

So far the experience has been exciting and packed with everything you can imagine. India is truly an assault on the senses. JACK is jumping for joy!

JACK JUMPING FOR JOY

Having a great time........more soon.

Hugs

JACK

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,”

Monday, February 11, 2013

Cheeky JACK

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Jack Does the Taj

Jeff Molloy - Mixed media painting and assemblage

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