More than 50 paintings and welded steel sculptures created by artist/musician/teacher David Tobey are on display now through June 15 at the White Plains Public Library's Museum Gallery.

Wednesday’s opening reception for his solo show featured New Rochelle resident Tobey performing live on the violin, accompanying keyboard player Kirk Enrenreich.

The Friends of the White Plains Library and The White Plains Library Foundation will each receive 20 percent of proceeds from all art sales.

“Tobey uses acrylics painted on canvas to evoke musicians and musical themes that appear dreamlike, sometimes surrealistic,” said Kathleen Masterson, the show’s curator.

“Like musical notes, the fragments and elements assemble and reassemble into surprising compositions that are colorful, distinctive and satisfying,” she said. “The tonality may seem distorted, but the effect of the whole is controlled and powerful.

Tobey’s career as a painter and sculptor includes being a professional violinist with the Westchester Philharmonic Orchestra, visual artist and music and art teacher at Albert Leonard and Issac E. Young Middle Schools in New Rochelle.

The son of historic painter Alton S. Tobey, he studied with his father and at the Art Student's League in New York and earned a master of arts degree from the College of New Rochelle.

“In executing his sculptures, Mr. Tobey draws on his knowledge of physics to create harmonious balance,” Masterson said. “His works demonstrate how steel and wood can be manipulated to achieve a vision of grace and mastery of space.”

An alumnus of the Juilliard School, Tobey was chosen as one of 100 of its most outstanding alumni in 2004.

He pursues his very active careers in both music and art in Westchester County and has had more than two dozen solo and group shows of his paintings, prints & sculpture mainly in New York City galleries and in the New York tri-state area to benefit nonprofit groups he supports—The American Cancer Society, The Westchester Philharmonic, The Juilliard School, The Danny Club, The Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle and others.

Tobey will perform on violin at the Sixth Annual Treasures Gala for the White Plains Library Foundation at 7 p.m April 9 at the Library.