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New York, NY, United States, 2007/08/29 - Artist David Tobey donates a major painting to the American Cancer Society and has an exhibition in New York September 25 to October 13th At Pleiades Gallery with portion of all proceeds to go to The American Cancer Society.
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Thirty percent of the revenue from all sales of Tobey’s art during the run of the show through October 13th is going directly to benefit the ACS.
The same week that the Tobey show is opening, his painting Reaching For The Cure, created by him specifically for the ACS and donated to them, will be auctioned off at their benefit Evening of Jazz on Thursday, September 27th at Le Chateau restaurant in South Salem, NY in Westchester County, NY – at an event featuring live jazz and an auction of art by a number of local to internationally well-known artists. A full 100% of revenues from this auction will go to benefit the ACS.
The public is cordially invited to the New York City reception at Pleiades for the Tobey exhibition, that will be held on Saturday afternoon September 29th from 3 to 7 pm. Paintings in the show will be art created by Tobey over the past three years that stylistically features different levels of representation and abstraction, and in Tobey’s own words, deals specifically with “the expansion and development of who I am as an artist.” A number of Tobey’s welded steel sculptures will also be in this exhibition.
David Tobey started painting in his early childhood in the home and studio of his father, the well-known historical illustrator and muralist Alton S. Tobey. He also had a serious interest in music, fostered perhaps in no small part by his mother Rosalyn Tobey, who was a distinguished concert pianist. In his teens, David studied art at The Art Students League in New York and violin at The Music Conservatory of Westchester. He subsequently gained admission to The Julliard School and graduated there with a performance degree in 1975.
He also holds a Master's degree in Studio Art from The College of New Rochelle, in the city where he currently lives with his family. David’s has had many one-man and group shows in Westchester County NY and in Connecticut and this is his third New York solo show. He has appeared on radio and on TV discussing his art, and his paintings have been published by Scafa, Ray Greenburg Modern Art and on CDs and record albums. In 2005 he had the honor of being named one of the Juilliard School’s top 100 graduates in their 100 year history, with an image of his 2003 painting Exhuberance used in posters for the event at Lincoln Center. David is also a featured artist in the Manhattan Arts International Online Gallery.
The exhibition at Pleiades Gallery will continue through October 13th. Additional information on Tobey, images of paintings and sculpture in the exhibition, his artist’s statement and biography and more about this American Cancer Society benefit show can be found on his website or by contacting him. Information on the American Cancer Society can be reached by calling 1-800-ACS-2345.
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