Geoffroy Tobé: Here and There at R.B. Stevenson Gallery

by Patricia Frischer

A Frenchman comes to San Diego after a 12 year career teaching in Paris. Geoffroy Tobé finds work teaching at UCSD in 2020 and we get the benefit of this European expat. Naming an exhibition Here and There makes reference to transcontinental nature of his vision. 

The work in this show at R.B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla is strongly architectural and strongly colored but there is this twist of emotional brush work that gives you a strong sense of an individual personality. So the architecture not only refers to structure, it leads to shelter with all that means.  His previous show at the gallery, last May, was titled Shelter which was directly related to the work he does with the Cultural Organization for Research and Heritage in the Alps (CREHA), which is involved in modern arts in the  Alps. 

The Alps does not lend itself to thinking of building, more about landscapes, and this could be why the works seems like it could be inspired by the work of Richard Diebenkorn, the San Francisco artist who made geometric, lyrical, abstract paintings. 

Geoffroy Tobé: Here and There at R.B. Stevenson Gallery 
Oct 18 to Nov 8, 2025
Please note that Geoffroy Tobé is also included in the next group exhibition. 

Wayne Hulgin included in the Holiday Group exhibition
and is a teacher at City College. 

The next exhibition will be a Holiday Group from Nov 15 to Dec. 20 with Charles Arnoldi, Jennifer Anne Bennett, Tim Craighead, Stephen P. Curry, Alan Disparte, Jeanne Dunn, Wayne Hulgin, Frances McCormack, Richard Allen Morris, Geoffroy Tobé, and Chris Trueman. 

Holiday Group
R.B. Stevenson Gallery
Nov 15 to Dec 20. 2025
Opening reception: Sat. Nov 15 from 5 to 8 pm
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