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Patti
Mollica
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 Crossing Madison acrylic on canvas, 24" x 24" |
 57th Street Dusk oil on canvas, 14" x 11" |
 Guggenheim Stroll oil on canvas, 20" x 16" |
 Smokestack oil on canvas, 36" x 24" |
 Soho Fire Escapes oil on canvas, 36" x 48" |
 Pink Coat oil on canvas, 24" x 24" |
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Profile Award-winning artist Patti Mollica's paintings are coveted by both decorators and collectors, and are noted for their stylistic versatility and bold use of color. She has received numerous national awards and scholarships including two full scholarships from the National Academy of Design and the Pastel Society of America. She also has twice won the Award of Excellence from Manhattan Arts International Magazine. Patti studied illustration at Syracuse University and later graduated from the highly acclaimed Portfolio Center in Atlanta, GA where she earned the Best Portfolio Award in Illustration, Graphic Design and Art direction. She began her professional career as an art director in several advertising agencies and then founded her own creative services boutique which flourished for seven years. Upon moving to New York City in 1992, Patti worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, and was commissioned by major international companies including Coca-Cola, Sheraton Hotels, American Greeting Cards, CBS and RCA Records. The artist's many one-person exhibitions include those at MAC Gallery in Midtown, "Off the Wall, NY at Lola, The Ansonia Windows Gallery and The Elizabeth Kerr Gallery, in Sussex, NJ, Mollica has participated in many group exhibitions, including "Urban Expressions 96, 97, and '98," The Pastel Society and The Salmagundi Club Members' Shows, The Street Painters of New York, and The Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center. The artist's artwork has been published nationally and internationally. Some recent examples include: several Penguin Press book covers, Marcel Schurman and Hallmark Greeting cards, Channel 13 WNET TV spots, and Citicorp's annual report cover. The New York Graphic Society "Artbeats" poster series include eight of Mollica's images reproduced as fine art posters which have been distributed in high end retail chains nationally. International publishing formats include magazine covers and editorial features, wine labels, calendar and album covers, annual reports and ads. The artist lives and works in New York City and her studio is located in the historical boyhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, NY. Praise for Patti Mollica "Patti Mollica captures the essence of New York in splashes of color that practically throb with the city's energy." Paulette Weiss, editor, WHERE, New York "The city provides Mollica with a seemingly limitless number of opportunities for exploring her clearly formulated aesthetic goals. Her paintings are notable, above all, for their strong compositions, bravura brushwork, and striking color harmonies." Ed McCormack, former contributing editor of Andy Warhol's Interview feature writer, Rolling Stone "It is one of Patti Mollica's strengths as a painter that she can indulge such coloristic playfulness even while capturing an authentic sense of the city's character and atmosphere. Indeed, the poetic license that she takes with color, as well as form only serves to make her sense of the city feel more real." Judith Levy, contributing editor, Gallery and Studio magazine
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