The Red Toque: Walrus Gala - TD Bank Purchase

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Walrus Gala - TD Bank Purchase

The Chocolate Moose

The Chocolate Moose was purchased by Ann Lawson and Paul Brehl at the Walrus Gala in Toronto

The Weekend Warrior was purchased by Toronto Dominion for their art collection.

I met so many great people last night at the Walrus Gala. I sat with dear friend Chris Straw and the wonderful folks from Adventure Canada. The night was great success for everyone involved. I had a great connection with Murray McLauchlan and saw many very familiar faces in the crowd.

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tammyJanuary 23, 2014 at 8:58 AM
fantastic Jeff! congratulations....!!!
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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 23, 2014

Walrus Gala - TD Bank Purchase

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Jeff Molloy - Mixed media painting and assemblage

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