Faba Faba Biography

Established Artist, US-based contemporary artist, Faba is a painter and designer, whose works are often in the ABSTRACT or POP styles.

Trained at the Corcoran Art School, Washington D.C., Faba has exhibited at several EXHIBITIONS, including:

2009 - Permanent Collection - Enriqueta Hueso Gallery - Oriente & Occidente Gestion Cultural - Valencia Spain - Website: http://galeriaomaso.com/

2008 - November - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - CHICAGO, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - Navy Pier, To be announced: Website www.sofaexpo.com

2008 - September 19 - October 30- Enriqueta Hueso Gallery -Oriente & Occidente Gestión Cultural- Valencia - Spain Website: http://galeriaomaso.com/ - Work added to her permanent Collection

2008- September 1 - 30 .M!WAA New Art Center - 580 8th Avenue, Manhattan, NY - Website: www.cannyc.com

2008 - May 1st - June 27th, 2008 - BNP PARIBAS BANK - Solo Show, 4 Locations: La Charite, Nevers Colbert, Corbigny - NEVERS, France

2007 - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - CHICAGO, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - Navy Pier, November 1 - 4, 2007 Booth 1505: Website www.sofaexpo.com

2007 - July 1st - July 31st - SLOVAQUIA - Bratislava - Galerie Michalsky DVORS - Galerie Artitude Website : www.gallery.sk www.artitudeparis.com

2007 - July 10th - August 4th, 2007 - .M!WAA New Art Center - 580 8th Avenue, New York, NY - Openning Reception July 12th, 2007 Website: www.cannyc.com

2007 - May 8th - June 3, 2007 WIA- WOMEN IN THE ARTS FOUNDATION PRESENTS: Inner Bridges to Outer Scenes - VENEZUELAN CENTER: 7 East 51st Street, New York, NY - Opening Reception May 10th - May 8th - June 3rd, 2007

2007 - March 11th, 2007 CASTILLO D'AYALA VALVA de CAROSINO - SGUARDI DI DONNA EXPO with the Assoziacione culturale SEMATA de Taranto (Italy) Website: http://es.geocities.com/acvra_2000/id6.htm

2006- 2007 - M!WAA -NEW ART CENTER - 580 8th Avenue, New York, NY - September 2006 - September 2007 - Website www.miwaa.org

2006 - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - CHICAGO, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - Navy Pier, November 9 - 12, 2006 Booth Website www.sofaexpo.com

2006 - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - NEW YORK, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - ARMORY - 67th Street and Park Avenue, May 31, 2006 - June 4th 2006 Website: www.sofaexpo.com

2006 - WOMEN IN THE ARTS FOUNDATION - GROUP SHOW, Tribeca Grill, Tribeca - New York, May 20 - June 20, 2006 Website www.anny.org

2006 - VIA ANTICA - 11 Rue Jacob, St. Germain-Paris, France - October 2005 - April 2006 Website www.sorayafeder.com

2005 - COMPTOIR DU MARAIS - 8 Rue du Moussy, Paris - France, September 12 - 25, 2005- Solo Show

2005 - ASIAN FUSION GALLERY - RAIN FOREST FOUNDATION - Asian Culture Building, 15 East 40th Street, New York, NY - September 9 - October 2, 2005 Website: www.acclub.org/exhibitions

2005 - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - NEW YORK, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - ARMORY - 67th Street and Park Avenue, June 1 -5 ,2005 Website: www.sofaexpo.com

2005 - ART CONTEMPORARY - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART - SOFA - PALM BEACH, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery - FLorida Palm Beach Convention Center, Palm Beach, Florida - January 13 - 17, 2005 Website: www.sofaexpo.com

2004 - SCULPTURE OBJECTS FUNCTIONAL ART- SOFA - CHICAGO, Artempresa Gallery, Festival Hall, Navy Pier, November 4-7, 2004 Website: www.sofaexpo.com

2004 - FRANCIS CLEMENT GALLERY - 3 Rue des Piliers, Sancerre - France - June 2004 - March 2005 - Solo Show

2004 - LE CAFE DES LETTRES - 53 Rue de Verneuil, St. Germain - Paris, France - May 1 - 31, 2004 - SOLO SHOW- July 1 - 30, 2004 -SOLO SHOW Website: www.cafedeslettres.com

2003 - CARNEGIE-ELLSWORTH MUSEUM - 520 Rocksylvania Avenue, Iowa Falls, IOWA "Permanenet Collection" Opening May 3, 2003

2003 - CADOGAN TATE -41-20 39th Street, Sunnyside, New York. January 2003 - June 2005 Solo Show

2003 - AMSTERDAM WHITNEY FINE ART GALLERY- 511 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York -January 18, 2003 - January 2004 Webstie: www.amsterdamwhitneygallery.com

2002- NEW YORK INDEPENDENT ART FAIR - PLAZA HOTEL-Central Park South, NY. - January 15 - 19, 2002 Website www.newyorkindependentartfair.com

Her work can also been seen at the following COLLECTIONS & MUSEUMS:

  • Cadogan Tate, NewYork
  • Carnegie-Ellsworth Museum, Iowa Falls, Iowa
  • Brocicua College - Manhattan, NY
  • Trading Places - Paris, France
  • Alphonse Mellot - Sancerre, France
  • Associacion Cultural "Valentin Ruiz Aznar" - Granada, Spain
  • Romanos Brihi London - Residential Design & Development - London, England
  • Enriqueta Hueso Gallery - Valencia, Spain
  • Private Collectors - Europe, USA, South America, Latin America

Two primary aspects of Faba’s experience inform her work – her childhood spent in Seville and Madrid (her exposure to mosaics during this time inspired her persistent focus on form, dimensionality and texture), and her work as a photographer’s model (through which she was driven to create compositions that make use of space, light and perception). Faba studied painting at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, art fairs, and museums ( with permanent exhibitions of her work at the Carnegie-Ellsworth Museum in Iowa, USA, and at the Boricua College in New York, USA) and has been featured in many publications. Aside form painting, Faba has adapted many of her paintings into sculpture and jewellery. Faba presently lives in Sologne, France. _

Artist's Statement

My work stems from a childhood spent in the playful light and color of Seville and Madrid. The passion and emotion associated with the Spanish temperament, while generic, nonetheless figures greatly into my working process.   It is the simple expression of these emotions that compels my painting, which derives as much from studied Classical art as it does from the rich architectural mosaics and artisan crafts which are prominent so prominent in the place I grew up.   I consider my work to be unfolding dramas that incorporate narratives from the everyday life into a hybrid of painting and low-relief sculpture, whereby rich oil pigments are accented with glitter, flora and sand. Usually tinged with an air of humour and levity, my pieces assume a certain primitive decorum that play with the notions of high and low, culture and kitsch, and colour and texture. Flung in the air and tending to land on the brighter, more optimistic side of life, one might even go so far as to call them vibrant and “juicy.”