Biography
American
1949 |
Born Dallas, TX |
"a rough ride home", 2010 |
Education
1970 |
Southern Methodist University, B.B.A. in Accounting and a Minor in Sculpturing |
1974 |
Southern Methodist University, J.D. |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
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2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 |
Exhibition: Blue Star Contemporary Art Center and the San Antonio Botanical Garden Exhibition: WEST TEXAS TRIANGLE: 5th Annual Triangle Show (a consortium of four art museums in West Texas) San Angelo, Abilene, Albany, and Odessa, TX Exhibition: The Tyler Museum of Art ,Tyler, TX (September 2010 with Catalouge) Exhibition: “Form & Substance”, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX Exhibition: The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (September 2010 with Catalogue) "The Road Through Texas," Colton & Farb Gallery, Houston, TX Dallas Design District Outdoor Art Installation, Dallas, TX Outdoor Sculpture Show: “International Bridge”, Town of Vail, CO. (June 2009/10) Irving Arts Center and Sculpture Garden, Irving, TX “Parts for a Sculpture”, Temple Emanuel EL, Dallas, TX “Poetry in Steel”, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC), Dallas, TX (catalogue) “New York Show”, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY “The Business of Art”, Bryan Tower: Sponsored by Spire Realty, Dallas, TX “Poetry in Steel”, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (catalogue) The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX: 3 D on Swiss “My First Rodeo”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX Outdoor Sculpture Show, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of Arts, Dallas |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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2011 2011 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2009
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Lake Oswego: Gallery Without Walls Exhibition, Art Council of Lake Oswego, Oregon, Juried 30th Abilene Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, TX, Juried MOTA Show: 12 Jewish Artists, Dallas, TX, Juried Henderson Art Project, Juried Sculpture Exhibition,Dallas, TX Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Meadows Museum SMU, Texas Sculpture Association State-Wide Juried Art Exhibition,Dallas,TX D Art Slam, Dallas, TX, Juried Sculpture for New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Curated: Tulane University, Diamond Street
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GEORGE TOBOLOWSKY:
2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2006 2006 2006 2005 |
Texas Sculpture Association’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Dallas, TX, Juried Obelisk Awards & 20th Anniversary Gala, sponsored by North Texas Business for Culture and the Art’s, Dallas, TX, Juried “Group Show”, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX The Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, TX Critic's Choice Exhibition, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX Waco National Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: Invitational Artists, Juried Kemp Center for the Arts, Wichita Falls, TX, Juried New Texas Talent, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, TX, Juried |
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS :
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Finalist Love Field Airport-Terminal, Dallas, TX Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas, TX The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Texas Sculpture Garden, Hall Office Park, Frisco, TX Irving Arts Center and Sculpture Garden, Irving, TX The International Bridge,Vail, CO Gary and Karleen Kusin, Dallas, TX Craig and Ambassador Kathryn Hall, Dallas, TX and Napa Valley, CA Dean Carol Brandt, Meadows School of Arts, Dallas, TX Donald and Barbara Zale, Dallas, TX and Vail, CO Joyce and Larry Lacerte, Dallas, TX and Ketchum, ID Regency Nursing Centers, Victoria, TX Mary Jane Garth, Beaumont, TX FedEx Kinko's, Dallas, TX Ergoline Holdings, Windhagen, Germany Commercial Metals Company, Irving, TX Spire Realty, Dallas & Houston, TX The Legacy Senior Communities, Plano, TX |
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / ARTICLES :
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Texas Artist George Tobolowsky as the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler Daily, Aug. 23, 2010 TMA to present George Tobolowsky's Found Object Assemblages, Tyler Morning Teleg., Aug. 21, 2010 ‘George Tobolowsky: Sculpturing’ Documentary Film by Dallas Filmmaker Quin Mathews, April, 2010 ‘Form & Substance:The Art of George Tobolowsky’,Exhibition Catalogue,April 30,2010,The Grace ‘Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection’,Dallas Morning News ,November 2,2009 ‘Poetry in Steel’ told in Vail,Vail Daily,May 20,2009 DMagazine.com, “A Preview of the Dallas Art Fair”, February 3, 2009 Modern Sculptures Transform Tulane Quad, New Wave, Tulane University, November 5, 2008 Past Exhibition & Artists 2008, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, August 8, 2008 “Napa art-wine parings” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, June 15, 2008 “Sculpture Exhibit: Opens in September; Baylor University News, Waco TX, August 29, 2007 “George Tobolowsky: Poetry in Steel”, Beaumont Convention & Visitors Bureau, April 2, 2007 “Poetry in Steel”, Exhibition Catalogue, April 28, 2007 “Finding Treasure: Sculptor sees beauty in everyday scraps” Annotations, Art Museum of Southeast Texas: 500 Main: “George Tobolowsky: Poetry in Steel,” Spring2007 Public Radio Interview: WRR “Art Matters” by Quin Mathews, Dallas, TX April, 2006 |
GEORGE TOBOLOWSKY:
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Past Exhibition & Artists 2008, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, August 8, 2008 “Napa art-wine parings” Los Angeles Times, Sunday, June 15, 2008 “Sculpture Exhibit: Opens in September; Baylor University News, Waco TX, August 29, 2007 “George Tobolowsky: Poetry in Steel”, Beaumont Convention & Visitors Bureau, April 2, 2007 “Poetry in Steel”, Exhibition Catalogue, April 28, 2007 “Finding Treasure: Sculptor sees beauty in everyday scraps” Annotations, Art Museum of Southeast Texas: 500 Main: “George Tobolowsky: Poetry in Steel,” Spring2007 Public Radio Interview: WRR “Art Matters” by Quin Mathews, Dallas, TX April, 2006 |
SELECTED CURRENT/PAST BOARDS :
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Texas Sculpture Association, Co-Founder, Dallas, TX Public Art Committee, Panelist, Dallas, TX Meadows School of Arts Executive Committee (SMU) Meadows Museum Advisor Council (SMU) Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX Library of Congress, Washington, DC Phillips Society Young Presidents Organization, Dallas, TX Dallas and Texas Bar Associations Texas Map Society, President Communities Foundation, Advisory Board M.B. and Edna Zale Foundation, Treasurer Abe Zale Foundation, President |
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES :
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2010 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 Prior 2000 |
Served as a Juror for the Annual "Scrap Can Be Beautiful Contest", held by Commercial Metals Company. Irving, TX (2009/2010) Served as a Docent for the "1st Annual Dallas Art Fair", Dallas, TX (2009/2010) Served as a Juror for the 31st Annual “Scrap Can Be Beautiful Contest”, held by Commercial Demonstrating artist for the Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts and Committee Member, planning Texas Sculpture Association’s 25th Anniversary Symposium. Invited to participate as a demonstrating artist, with sculpture students in Hooper-Schaefer Arts Center, Baylor University, Waco, TX Co-Founder of the Texas Sculpture Association |
214-533-1133
Mountain Springs Sculpture Studio 663 Springs Road Mountain Springs, Texas 76272 |
"My Signature Piece" 2009 |
About the Artist:
GEORGE TOBOLOWSKY, Dallas, TexasIn February 2006, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas produced an introductory exhibition of steel sculpture by George Tobolowsky. Citing artists such as Louise Nevelson and David Smith as inspirations to his work, Tobolowsky constructs his creations by transforming steel into a visual memory that reflects his business experiences of the past several decades. A savvy executive who has analyzed humanity's trials and tribulations in the legal and business world, Tobolowsky channels a solid understanding of metallurgy into whimsical and curvilinear forms. Producing sculptures from indoor table-top pieces to monumental outdoor works using "found" metals that incorporates some of the metals original colors and forms. The striking juxtaposition between the brawn of his medium and the fluidity of his compositions harmonize with remarkable success.
A native of Dallas, Texas, George Tobolowsky earned his business degree and law degree from Southern Methodist University in the early 70s. A minor in sculpture sparked a long standing relationship with another Texas sculptor, the venerable James Surls. Tobolowsky has sustained an active involvement in the arts, as board member of esteemed organizations including the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU and the Library of Congress. Tobolowsky has been invited to participate in several museum shows and exhibitions over the years and his work is in many public and private collections.The artist lives in Dallas and works in Mountain Springs, Texas.
"What an impressive body of work! Dazzling compositions, rhythm, structure and infinite grace with bold gestures and irresistible tactility. I am deeply impressed by the growing maturity of your work, George. Congratulations! I admire your energy and vision. Keep me posted. All my best"
Former Director of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
"Since that revelatory debut in 2006, Tobolowsky has continued to hone his craft, creating works of greater compositional complexity, challenging engineering, textural variation, and conceptual sophistication. The works...made between 2008 and 2010, show the artist continuing the incredible transformation of discarded machine parts, industrial production errors, and miscellaneous hunks of steel salvaged from the scrap heaps and fabrication plants of Dallas into powerful, whimsical, engaging works of art. Tobolowsky's abstract steel assemblages derive from the artist's life and work experience and speak of the joys, frustrations, humorous moments, conflicts, and triumphs that constitute our shared human experience at the beginning of the 21st century."
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
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