Molly Molly

Molly Molly

About Molly Larkey I Want to be Artist

Molly Larkey’s The Revolutionary playfully incorporates elements of formalist abstraction with its symbolic subject matter. Constructed from a variety of materials, Larkey gives her sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured paint, each rough hewn component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument, inciting both Modernist art history and hippie psychedelia. With her theatrical assemblage, Larkey frames these disparate ideas as humorously dysfunctional; relating the dynamics of power with the festivity of grass roots endeavour.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

M*A*S*H, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud & Amy

Smith-Stewart, New York

Tropical Punch, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn

2005

LineAge, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Off My Biscuit, Destroy Your District!, Samson Projects,

Boston

Atomica, Esso Gallery & Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New

York

Désert de Retz, curated by David Hunt, Audiello Fine Art, New York

2004

Black Milk, Marvelli Gallery, New York

2003

Terrible Beauty, Satelliteâ (a division of Roebling Hall), New York

2001

An Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Women Artists:

Kiki Smith, Cecily Brown, Jane Hammond, Elizabeth Murray, Susan Rothenberg, Molly Larkey, Lisa Yuskavage, Marisol, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery,

Santa Monica

2000

New York Area MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

1999

Size Matters, Gales Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY

Mirror, Mirror On the Screen, Momenta Art Gallery, Williamsburg

The Y2K Solution, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

1996

Incestuous, Threadwaxing Space, New York

Bottom Line :

Larkey gives her sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured paint, each rough hewn component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument, inciting both Modernist art history and hippie psychedelia.

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View Molly Larkey paintings, biography, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions and resource of Molly Larkey artist. View art online at The Saatchi Gallery - London contemporary art gallery. Molly Larkey

When does a lyretail molly become a lyretail molly?

Our newly purchased lyretail molly unexpectedly gave birth to about 20 fry a little over a month ago. She has a beautiful lyretail, but the fry all have normal-shaped molly tails. Since the mother got amorous in a pet store tank containing a mixture of lyretail and non-lyretail, I suppose it's possible that none of these will turn out with lyretails.

My question is: How long do I have to wait to be sure? We can't keep all 20 fry, and I have some homes lined up for many of them, but we'd like the two or three we keep to be lyretails as well. Does the lyretail develop later, or are the fry old enough to tell now?

The lyretail really doesn't develop until the babies are about 1/2 adult size. That could take as little as 3 months, but often closer to 4. If you watch very closely you can see hits form earlier than that in the form of thickening along the edges of the tail fin as well as a rather flat end to the tail rather than the more smoothly rounded end found on "regular" tail types.

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