Two allegorical sculptures representing Brooklyn and Manhattan were relocated to the Brooklyn Museum. In this project Tolle brings contemporary replicas of the figures cast in translucent fiberglass resin, close to their original site, where they spin in a perpetual dance above the street.

Drawing ideas from a broad-based conceptual analysis Tolle blurs the border between the contemporary and the historical. His approach involves in depth research, which is then distilled and directed creating an intuitive personal response.

Kahn, Eve M. "(Brian Tolle) Form Distortionist." The International Design Magazine (January and February 2006): 82. Chasin, Noah."Plant one on: The Queens Museum wanders through 50 years of artists' gardens."

Tolle's first permanent UK artwork represents a former ironworks chimney that once stood in the Rhymney Valley. Hand carved out of steel, the £180,000 sculpture is 16 metres in length and twists eight metres into the air. Tolle is renowned for using history as the basis for his artwork.

Brian Tolle, Outgrown, 2009, toys, and platinum silicon rubber, 58 X 40 X 80 inches. Courtesy of the artist and CRG Gallery, NY. Brian Tolle’s work, Levittown , offers us a creative glimpse behind the repetitive uniformity of the American dream home.

Brian Tolle's Irish Hunger Memorial which occupies a half acre site in lower Manhattan, on the intersection of North End Avenue and Vesey Street, was unveiled in 2002. It commemorates the Irish Famine of the 18405 and the huge numbers of Irish men and women who migrated to North America. Financed to the tune of about $5 million by Battery Park City

Tolle attests to the Fifth Province by insuring that his poetic text—the site as work of art—remains answerable to an ethical context of responsibility. And he brings this about by turning his famine memorial into an intertextual play of multiple readings and perspectives. The hold of a single meta-narrative of Irish history is

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Brian Tolle — By WILLIAM R. KAIZEN . Brian Tolle is currently a very busy man. He’s been awarded a commission by the Battery Park City Authority to design and oversee the installation of a memorial to the Irish Famine.

For his first show at the CRG Gallery, the artist Brian Tolle presents until March 21 st “Levittown”, a group of cast silicones sculptures representing sort of melting houses in some very unexpected positions.