Current Exhibition at R.B. Stevenson Gallery La Jolla California

Geoffroy Tobé "Blankets" 2021, oil on linen, 72 x 48 in.121.9 x 182.9 cm.

Geoffroy Tobé recently moved from Paris, France to San Diego. Born and raised in the French Alps, he trained in classical studio arts and art direction at Penninghen in Paris, where he also taught for twelve years. Last spring, he taught for the first time at UCSD in Visual Arts. Inspired by French Moderns as well as California Colorists, Geoffroy’s figurative paintings explores nostalgia and memories through people, objects and places.

Stephen P. Curry "Mirage" (Date Palm Quad), 2003, oil & alkyd , 72 x 48 in, 182.9x 121.9 cm

These oil on wood panel paintings are from a series of modular paintings created between 2002 and 2004. This body of work was an exploration of fragments or snap shots of nature, composed as individual works and simultaneously as grouped arrangements to create multiple variations or modes of installation. The imagery is painted traditionally in oil paint on poplar panels and then multiple layers of transparent colored alkyd resin medium is poured over the images altering and transforming the imagery and the colors. Like biopsied fragments of nature or insects imbedded in amber, the images are bits of time frozen and partially concealed behind artificial candy colored films to be preserved for eternity.