Roy Tamboli
About the Artist
A descendent of Italian immigrants who settled in the Mississippi Delta, Roy Tamboli engaged with spirituality and mysticism at a young age through the Catholic Church and the African American gospel culture that surrounded him in his hometown, Memphis.
He has spent many years studying tribal, religious and contemporary art and culture in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. Known largely for his public and private monumental bronze and steel sculpture, Tamboli is currently focused on large scale paintings.
His work has been exhibited across America, in South America and in Japan and is in the collections of the Dixon Museum, Brooks Museum and the University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford. His work is in corporate, public and private collections across the country.
Embedded with personal stories, his paintings are largely a reaction to the paradox of living in one of the most deeply spiritual, yet most violent cities in America. Tamboli often begins paintings in remote parts of the world and returns them to his studio in Memphis for completion. Fusing a single work with different locations is part of his multi-consciousness theme, unleashing the boundless, dynamic possibilities of combining multiple locations. Creating a universe of abundance from source energy to the upper waters, Tamboli says, “These are the real and imaginary places that I escape into, realms of timeless, ceaseless movement and the pure energy of the visible and invisible world. Within the action of this work is where I choose to live, to help bring divine intervention into my soul and the physical world.”
“These are the real and imaginary places that I escape into, realms of timeless, ceaseless movement and the pure energy of the visible and invisible world. Within the action of this work is where I choose to live, to help bring divine intervention into my soul and the physical world.”
