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Roy Tamboli
Memphis artist Roy Tamboli is a descendant of the Delta Italians, a migration
that began in 1895 from the Marche region of Italy to the Mississippi Delta. Roy
was raised a strict Catholic and credits some of his early interest in art to
looking at religious works every morning at mass before school. He attended the
University of Memphis and was a sculpture instructor at the Memphis College of
Art for one year. In 1975 he left college for a year-long pilgrimage to the
museums of Europe to see first-hand classical, tribal, ancient and religious
art. This experience, which included access to copying original, uncovered
drawings of Leonardo da Vinci at the British Museum in London and a visit to
Rodin's studio, left an indelible effect on his work and propelled Roy to travel
the world in search of indigenous art in Africa, India, Asia and South America.
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