Tolley’s chess set, “Yellowstone”, features animals of North America. Wolves, bison, elk, pumas, horses and bears roam among hares and tortoises across a field of copper and steel. Tolley combines new and old metal techniques into a fresh vision of the future.
Somewhere between the figurative and abstract, Tolley’s sculptures are filled with implied motion. Negative and positive shapes and forms intertwine. Under the power of his hammer, hot steel flows into new forms vibrating with life.
Life-long cowboy, farrier, blacksmith and artist, Tolley Marney makes art representing the New West. Inspired by centuries of the maker’s traditions of the American West, Tolley creates modern hand built steel sculptures through the contemporary lens of a working cowboy.
- Subject Matter: Chess set