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Sculptor creates art with courthouse metal
Submitted Photo - Sculptor George Tobolowsky works on 'Planning,' a sculpture now on display in the McKinney City Hall lobby. Tobolowsky made this and two other sculptures using scrap metal from the old Collin County Courthouse building, demolished in 2010.
By Dan Eakin, deakin@acnpapers.com
George Tobolowsky has done it again.
Back in October, he unveiled a sculpture of a bra hanging from a tree in front of the McKinney Performing Arts Center to note Breast Awareness Month. He has since created two more sculptures, and they are on display in the lobbies of McKinney City Hall and the city's Development Services building.
Tobolowsky, who minored in sculpture at Southern Methodist University, built all three sculptures from scrap metal taken from the Collin County Courthouse building, formerly located at 210 S. McDonald St. and demolished in 2010.
He made "Planning," the sculpture on display in the city hall lobby, using several pieces of metal that were cut from beams and recycled rebar.
"This sculpture captures the excitement and creativity of planning a new project," Tobolowsky said.
He titled the sculpture now in the lobby of the Development Services building as "The Tearing Down."
"This sculpture captures the energy of one of the first steps to rebuilding," he said. "The metal in this sculpture has been bent and mangled by equipment used in tearing down the building."
Tobolowsky, who has business and law degrees from SMU, lives in Dallas, but travels about 60 miles north several days every week to work at his art and sculpture studio in Mountain Springs.
There, he is assisted by Joe Miller, a Mountain Springs resident whom Tobolowsky described as "a welder and machinist."
"He is sorta my left-hand man," Tobolowsky said, because Miller lost his right hand in a farming accident several years ago.
Together, under Tobolowsky's direction, the two create art from twisted metals.
"This is the art of recycling scrap metal into sculptures," Tobolowsky said.
The sculptor would not put a price on his work, but said that over the years his sculptures have sold for anywhere from $3,000 to $30,000 each. He often displays them at museum shows in Texas and in other states.
While a student at SMU, Tobolowsky attained much of his inspiration from James Surls, a renowned sculptor who was teaching at the university.
Tobolowsky is a board member on the esteemed Meadows School of Arts at SMU and also serves with the Library of Congress' Map Division.
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