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"Pink Kimono" wins First Place at Festival of Trees! Awarded by Alexandra Skliris, Curator Assistant, European Art Department of the High Museum of Art.

Patricia Fabian

 "In-Life Drawing"

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4 Mondays
Session I: Sept 16—Oct 7

​1:30 - 3:30 PM            
  
$140 members                        
$165 non-members


We will be painting the model using props in real life situations. Shorter poses to capture the gesture of movement. One LONG pose per class. Includes model fee. 

Email Patricia with any questions you might have:
 pbfabian@aol.com




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I was born in Jersey City and raised in the inner city. This was the time of Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, and JFK.  I grew up wanting to be a writer.  I kept diaries, journals and wrote poetry and short stories.  I do remember that I would love to sit at the kitchen table and do collage mosaics.  I would tear construction paper into tiny pieces and make mosaic scenes of the shore, sailboats and the horizon line.  I liked laying color on color and the feel of the paper.


I went to college in Oklahoma and received my BA in Film and my MA in Humanities.  During my graduate studies I took an elective course in Watercolor.  My professor encouraged me to continue painting and I did.  I then set out to New Mexico and studied at a ranch adjacent to Ghost Ranch.  It was there that I saw color for the first time.  I would set up my easel in the morning for lavender paintings and then at night all was orange.

I left there to study at the Art League in VA.  I sold all my belongings and rented a studio in Chinatown.  I became involved again with collage and did my first collage series, “MT Suits” a satire of corporate politics.  I also painted outdoors using pastels and would spend many afternoons painting anywhere from the Washington Marina to the hills of Buckeystown, MD.

Then, I fell in love, married and moved to Atlanta.  In Atlanta I became discouraged by the landscape destroyed overnight by a lack of zoning laws.  I did a series titled “Untamed Landscapes”.  I smashed clay pots and then painted papers and added objects in an expressive mosaic style.  I also continued painting in pastels and painted figures and people in motion.  I was looking to capture that quiet moment that leads you to insight into a person’s life with just one glance.

We moved again to Texas where I loved the big sky and the wonderful people.  I painted the cowboy of today and the 20th century cowboy lifestyle.  I painted with acrylic and on large canvases.  I even used antique windows from flea markets for frames.  I loved the dry dirt, the color of rust and blue jeans.  My paintings smacked Americana. 

Six years ago, I moved to NJ and discovered Hunterdon County, Bucks County and reconnected to the Shore.  My husband bought a motorcycle and we go out every weekend and I experienced the horizon line like never before.  The sky is majestic, the horizon line so clear now and the senses of the flowers brought me to a new relationship with nature.  I have done several series of these afternoon rides.  Now I work almost exclusively in oil.  I love the feel of the paint and the way I can texture sections of the work with my palette knife and leave others smooth and almost untouched.  I love the contrast. I find direction in the horizon line and that is where all my paintings begin and end.  I use the paint now like the mosaic of my childhood on my kitchen table in Jersey City.

Just as we felt settled in NJ we moved again to Georgia.  My studio now is nestled in the woods on the banks of Lake Lanier just outside Atlanta.  I have fallen in love with the Appalachian Mountains and have come to understand in a new way the Cherokee legends of the past. Still, every year, I return to the Jersey Shore for inspiration and reconnect with my spiritual home.  I paint plein air from Seabright to Spring Lake.

Writing has given way to painting but in all my paintings I see a story and still consider myself a story teller with the medium of paint, mosaic or pastel.

My artwork has been on exhibition throughout North America and my works are in several private foundations, corporations and public organizations including The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation, the United States Tennis Association and Intersal (Philip Masters company that founded Black Beards Shipwreck)  Below is a list of my recent and current competitions/exhibitions. http://www.patriciafabian.com/PatriciaFabian/Welcome.html


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  • HOME
  • QUINLAN MEMBERSHIP
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    • 2020 Winter Exhibition
    • Past exhibitions >
      • 73rd Members' Exhibition
      • 2020 Fall
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      • 2019 Winter Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions 2019 >
        • Fifth Virginia Avery Memorial "Reflections" Juried Art Exhibition Awards
      • Summer Exhibitions 2019
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • Spring Exhibitions 2019
      • Youth Art Month 2019
      • 2019 GALA
      • 2019 GALA RED CARPET PHOTOS
      • 72nd Annual Members' Exhibition
      • 71st Annual Members' Exhibition
      • FALL EXHIBITIONS
      • Pentamerous Photography & Folk Art Show
      • 2018 Spring Exhibitions
      • 2018 Youth Art Month >
        • YAM & YMAS Winners
      • GALA 2018 Exhibition
      • Winter (17-18) Exhibitions
      • 2017 Fall Exhibitions
      • 70th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • 2017 Summer Exhibitions
      • 2017 Spring Exhibitions
      • GALA 2017- Geoffrey Johnson Artist Guest of Honor
      • Winter Exhibitions 2016-2017
      • 69th Annual Members Exhibition
      • 2016 Fall Exhibitions
      • 2016 Summer Exhibitions
      • 2016 Spring Exhibitions
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2016 >
        • YAM Winners
      • GALA 2016 >
        • Photo Gallery
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 68th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions 2015
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2015
      • HOME FOLK: A Celebration of Folk Art >
        • ART CARS
      • Spring Exhibitions
      • GALA 2015
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 67th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • Fall Exhibitions - 2014
      • Summer 2014
      • Spring Exhibitions-2014
      • 2014 Youth Art Month >
        • 2014 Youth Art Month Winners
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • 66th Annual Members' Exhibition
      • The Traveling Show
      • Inspired Georgia
      • Fall Exhibitions
      • Summer Exhibitions (ASMA)
      • Spring Exhibitions 2013
      • YOUTH ART MONTH 2013
      • GALA 2013
      • Winter Exhibitions
      • Dog and Pony Show
      • 65th Annual Members Exhibition
      • TULA Art Center Artists -summer 2012
      • Folk Art - summer 2012
      • Spring 2012
  • NEWS
    • NEW Director at the Q!
  • CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
    • Classes for Adults
    • Workshops
    • Pottery Classes and Information
    • Veterans Mosaic Workshop - free
    • Helpful info. and payment policies
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    • Girl Scout Badges
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  • Sara A. Oakley