Sculptor
Artist Website:
www.sculpturebyfab.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Women are strong, sensuous, graceful.
I capture their feelings in movement, color and passion.
I create each sculpture with my heart.
My raw material is emotion, pain and joy, love, impossible dreams and terrible suffering.
My medium is clay. Energy, tenderness, struggle and bliss flow from my hands to model it.
A pressure of the thumb, the cut of a tool, and the first line appears.
I let water drops fall on the piece.
Their journey is smooth, dripping from a shoulder to the hips, rolling down to die at the feet. The light bounces off the surface, the shadow becomes the curve’s secret.
Round, sharp, deep; little by little the shape emerges.
I cast the finished piece in stone or bronze, to give it strength, texture and color.
Now the story is told, my work is ready to be seen, to be touched.
My sculptures are voluptuous, please caress them.
Their lines are smooth and strong.
Like women they need to be loved.
They have emotions, listen to them.
They speak of the fight to become who we are, the dream for a world of harmony,
the beauty of being alive, of being a woman, a human.
They tell our story.
BIO:
Fabienne was born in Paris in 1968 from a family of artists. She came to California in 1996 with her husband and her two boys. Moving from Europe to the US allowed her to reinvent herself. Biochemist by formation, her love for the human body went from a molecular level to an emotional one when she decided to pursue her passion as a sculptor.
Selected Exhibitions and events
2010: Gallerie Gantois (Cannes – France) 2009-10
Los Gatos Museum & Gallery (Los Gatos, CA) 2009-10
Xanadu Gallery (Scottsdale, AZ)
2009: SBAWCA teaching at the Muriel Wright Center for girls
AVArt Fest (Mountain View, CA: Best of Show Award
2008: Loveland Sculpture Show (Loveland, CO)
Los Gatos Museum (los Gatos, CA)
French Consulate (San Francisco, CA )
2007: Courtyard Gallery (Half Moon Bay, CA) 2007
Kaleid Gallery (San Jose, CA) 2007
Gallerie Universalis (Saint Paul de Vence – France) 2006-07
2004-06: Simmons Gallery (San Francisco, CA) 2005
San Jose Museum of Art – 2004 & 2005
