Nina Molloy

Nina Molloy

Painter______1999, Bangkok, Thailand

I paint places and things that I’d like to experience and go into. Painting and drawing are ways to bring into existence what I see in my mind’s eye. Once materialized, I can go into it with my body, and then new things emerge. Sometimes it is a continuation of a world, and other times they're the beginnings of a new one.

 

The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.

The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.

 

The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.

The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.

 

Molloy elevates this material, often associated with poverty, displacement, and lack of infrastructure, to the status of a precious element. In her paintings, sheet metal sparkles within the verdant lushness of Thailand’s tropical landscape, existing alongside peacocks, orchids, and tualang trees.

I paint places and things that I’d like to experience and go into. Painting and drawing are ways to bring into existence what I see in my mind’s eye. Once materialized, I can go into it with my body, and then new things emerge. Sometimes it is a continuation of a world, and other times they're the beginnings of a new one.

The paintings are intimately tied to human scale. Their dimensions have to do with the way we see and walk. Seeing something is touching it, and spatial illusion solicits feeling and movement. Pace, thrust, air, surface, balance, tension, sound… our body is the measure of these physical sensations in the inert painting. It is a field of energy contained within the four edges of its frame—but the sensation can envelop and protrude/pierce beyond its flat surface and corners.

I paint places and things that I’d like to experience and go into. Painting and drawing are ways to bring into existence what I see in my mind’s eye. Once materialized, I can go into it with my body, and then new things emerge. Sometimes it is a continuation of a world, and other times they're the beginnings of a new one.

I paint places and things that I’d like to experience and go into. Painting and drawing are ways to bring into existence what I see in my mind’s eye. Once materialized, I can go into it with my body, and then new things emerge. Sometimes it is a continuation of a world, and other times they're the beginnings of a new one.