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Artist Exhibitions:
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Artist Grant, 2005
ArtPace, Chalk it Up Artist,
Honorarium 2004
Austin Fairchild Art
Foundation Grant 2004
Puffin Foundation Grant 2002
Texas Commission on the Arts,
2002
Fulbright Scholar Award to
Pakistan 2000
Esperanza Peace and Justice
Honorarium 1996, 1998
Chicago Artist's Grant 1991
Hattie Strong Foundation ...
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Artist Galleries:
REM Gallery,
117 Blue Star, No.3
San Antonio, Texas, 78204,
U.S.A.
www.remgallery.com
(210) 224-1227
Romo Gallery
309 Peters
Atlanta, GA 30313
www.romogallery.com
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Artist Reviews:
Paris Voice, "Mindwrestlers at
Parsons" Fall 2005
Vital Surge, "Houston Arts
Magazine" August, 2005
San Antonio Current "Best
Struggling Artist of 2004"
April 17-21, 2004
Richland Observer, Art Review,
Feb 2004, Dallas, TX
Perla (full color reprint)
Jan/Feb 2003/San Antonio, TX
Artlies, Houston, TX
Glasstire.com recommends, ...
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Collections:
Ed Garza, Mayor of San
Antonio, TX
William Schumacher, Fort
Wayne, IN
Portell-Bletsas, Athens,
Greece
Mr.&Mrs. Lawrence, Islamabad,
Pakistan
Amy Sillman, New York, New
York
National College of Arts,
Lahore, Pakistan
Jean Thompson, Greenwich, CT
John Fusco, Chicago, IL
Janet Moody, Baja, Mexico /
New York, NY
Dr. Marcella ...
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Commissions:
ArtPace, City of San Antonio
Houston Street 2004 Texas, USA
Argento Music Group, New York,
NY CD Posters...
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Artist Statement for Joan Fabian
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Capturing images, motifs and icons of cultures, both east and west, I formulate paintings, collages, hybrid drawings and scribble recordings as investigations of my surroundings and cultures present, whether at home or abroad. My work borders on a raw sensibility that transcends current contemporary art cliches to include social issues of media influences and psychological hierarchies. I challenge ideals of beauty and the voyeuristic desire behind the act of seeing by my combinations of surrealistic abstractions; attempting to bring a self-consciousness to the prestigious power structures in human tastes.
While living and working in Pakistan for a period of time, I became over-stimulated by the movement and activity in the streets and my "mental baggage" of being a Westerner. The seduction of colorful textiles being sold next to human poverty in the bazaars gave made me aware of the primitive act of seeing and the assumptions quickly made regarding what we see. I dare to break down preconceived ideas about cultures and visual knowledge. I try to take the viewer out of the everyday realm of "what appears" in hopes of giving a new perspective that instead allows for calm questioning. My deep appreciation for Sufi poetry and the writings of Sufi scholars in addition to the study of belief-systems, has fueled this investigation of looking at existence differently and from many angles and layers with an awareness of the workings of the human mind.
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