NEW ROCHELLE, NY — The paintings of New Rochelle artist David Tobey will be exhibited on Sunday, November 9, 2014 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The event will be held at a private home in New Rochelle near Weaver Street and Stratton Road. RSVP is required.
If you wish to attend, contact Yvonne Wynter for further details. She can be reached at yvonne0126@aol.com or (914) 235-9813.
The paintings in this exhibition were created by Tobey shortly before and following his successful New York City Solo show “Wet Paint” at Pleiades Gallery in Chelsea in April & May of this year. In painting them, Tobey carefully combines pigments, solvents and other chemicals that were formerly considered not mixable together, and achieves details and effects that could not be produced by using any accepted traditional rules of mixing paints, solvents and chemicals.
Detail on the right, of the colored part of “Alien Volcano” above, is a sample of some of the effects Tobey achieves with his new techniques. To see more of these phenomena, join us at our reception on Sunday, November 9th.
David Tobey is a painter and sculptor who has had an active life-long career as a professional violinist and visual artist as well as a music & art teacher. The son of the noted historical painter Alton S. Tobey, in his early years he studied with his father and at the Art Student’s League in New York and received his Master’s degree in Art from the College of New Rochelle. David is an alumnus of the Juilliard School who was selected in 2004 as one of 100 of their most outstanding alumni, and he is a founding member and violinist with the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra and he performs with many other musical groups.
His art has been commented upon in reviews as a “synaesthetic relationship between abstraction and music…the connection between linear and musical rhythms” (NY Times, 3/14/04); “…human drama, subconscious imagery, and a playful imagination, all coalesce in paintings and sculpture” (Art in America, 9/07) and his sculpture as having “…a unique draftsmanly fluidity in metal, surpassing even that of [Julio] Gonzalez” (Gallery & Studio Magazine, 1/07).
“Through his use of vibrant color and his innate musical talents, David stimulates his viewer’s senses by allowing them to experience a psychedelic ‘mind-manifesting’ interpretation of his subject,” said Kathleen Masterson, Curator of The White Plains Museum Gallery, where Tobey had a recent solo show March 30th through June 15th, 2011.
David pursues his very active careers in both music & art in his home community of Westchester County, NY and has had more than two dozen solo and group shows of his paintings, prints & sculpture mainly in New York City galleries and in the New York tri-state area, most of which have been benefits for organizations he supports, including The American Cancer Society, The Westchester Philharmonic, The Juilliard School, The Danny Club, The Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle and others.
For more information about David Tobey and to view his work, visit his website at davidtobey.com.