George Tobolowsky

George Tobolowsky (b. 1949) is a Texas artist who makes sculptures from found objects sourced from industrial scrap yards. He studied sculpture in the 1970s under James Surls at Southern Methodist University and also worked with Louise Nevelson in Dallas and New York. He began his career as an accountant and lawyer, co-owning many Blockbuster video stores and Duncan Donuts locations. The titles for his sculptures often come from business experiences related to closing deals, deals gone wrong, and related business situations. His Mountain Springs studio north of Dallas was constructed with reclaimed materials, including bridge beams and stone found on the property. A house he built there was inspired by Phillip Johnson's Glass House and Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House and is built with 100,000 pounds of reclaimed steel I-beams from a Dallas mall. He calls it the Recycled Glass House. His sculptures have been collected and exhibited in museums across Texas and as far away as Jerusalem and India. In 2018 he was in the Venice Biennale for Architecture and Sculpture. He is a Co-Founder of the Texas Sculpture Association.