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ANDY FABO
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Drawing upon personal experience and identity, Andy Fabo's new series Queen Street Desperados portrays a rich history of infamous personalities from Toronto's Queen Street art scene. Both meditative and interpretive, this series of diptychs combine digital print and silk-screening processes, reflecting Fabo's immersed relationship with the Queen Street art community, and his apparent reverence for the individuals he portrays. In each of the works, the artist's hand employs expressive gestures and mark- making to provide a heightened sense of the individual, while the representation of spotlights underline the performative nature of identity. Andy Fabo was born and educated in Calgary Alberta. He currently lives and works in Toronto, where he first became recognized as a painter through his association with ChromaZone, a highly influential collective that spearheaded Toronto's figurative painting movement in the early eighties. Since this time, Andy Fabo's work has explored issues of personal identity, focusing on his own gay identity, and how this relates to a broader social context. Throughout a career spanning nearly three decades, Andy Fabo's work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and abroad. In the mid- eighties he lived in New York where he was awarded the Canada Council residency at P.S.1. In 2005 Fabo's work was surveyed in a solo exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Art. The art of Andy Fabo can be found in such prestigus collections such as Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Council Art Bank and Museum of Modern Art in NYC. |
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