LOT 31 - Rocky Dobey

Gagné Contemporary

Title: Red Sky in Morn

Dimensions: 18" x 18'

Medium: Machinist ink and ceramic paint on copper

Date: 2025

Rocky Dobey has been installing street art in Toronto and other Canadian cities for five decades, beginning with xeroxed posters in the 1970's, and numerous anonymous agitprop billboards, concrete sculptures, laquered books and political plaques in the 1980's and 90s's. Over the past 20 years Dobey has developed a more formal practice of intaglio prints, copper sculptures, and recently large etched works in copper, enhanced with porcelain paint, tar and other materials. The new works address many of the same concerns as the early street art, but applied to a much larger scale, and using techniques derived from printmaking and sculptural traditions. Recent shows include power at OCADU's Onsite Gallery, and Civilization and its Discontents, a solo show of new works at Gagné Contemporary, both in 2024; and Friends, Neighbours, and Distant Comrades, Selections from the Moore Collection of 80s New York City Street Art at Fredericka Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2023.