Following the closing this past June of David Tobey’s two-and-a-half-month one-man art show at the White Plains Museum, three venues in Westchester County are now newly exhibiting his sculpture. They include The Washington Square Art Gallery, 367 South Ridge Street in Rye Brook; James, 21 Babbit Road in Bedford Hills, and the museum store at The Katohan Museum, Route 22 & Jay Street in Katonah.
The Washington Square Gallery, that specializes in art by internationally famous artists such as Charles Fazzino and Thomas Arvid, is featuring large sculptures from more than a foot to five feet in height. James and The Katonah Museum store have a selection of smaller works. Every sculpture on display at all three locations are one-of-a kind creations.
Tobey is a lifetime resident of New Rochelle, an art & music teacher in the Albert Leonard and Isaac Young Middle Schools and who’s the city’s Middle School Orchestra Director has had over a dozen solo and group shows of his art at galleries both here in Westchester and in New York City.
Tobey creates his welded steel sculpture at Les Métalliers Champenois in Paterson, New Jersey — an international award-winning foundry that specializes in fine and architectural art in metal for industry. LMC’s projects have included the Torch & Flame of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Flame in Paris, the main entrance doors of the New York Public Library and others both here in the U.S. and abroad. Here Tobey has access to a huge array of materials and tools to fabricate his metal artwork.
Here Tobey has access to a huge array of materials and tools to fabricate his metal artwork. At times he may find scrap pieces that have been discarded from one of the foundry’s architectural projects, and use one or more of them as the main elements in a sculpture. At other times, he uses them as a single dominant element in one of his pieces of art and then embellishes the final art with other metal forms that he crafts himself to complete them as the evolution to the form of the final sculpture evolves.
His art and career have also been commented upon extensively in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, The Art Times Journal, The Journal News, and many other local newspapers and other media. A feature article on his sculpture in the January 2007 issue of Gallery & Studio magazine describes it as having ” . . .a unique draftsmanly fluidity in metal, surpassing even that of [Julio] Gonzalez”.
To contact The Washington Square Art Gallery call (914) 937-5600 or email moe1016@aol.com; for James, call (914) 514-8981 or email onacohn@gmail.com; and for the store at the Katonah Museum, call (914) 232-9555.
Tobey welded steel creations can also be seen on his web site at http://www.davidtobey.com, or first-hand by appointment by calling him personally at (914) 632-8226 or email david@davidtobey.com.