Abstract Painter -- Fine Artist
expressive contemporary artist -- edgy, unexpected, evocative
Fabry's paintings fuse fragments of street art, posters, photography, or grafitti -- repurposed as layered elements in dynamic abstract compositions with gestural slashes and brushstrokes of acrylic paint. His rhythmic constructions convey order out of chaos, merging fractal imagery in expressionist abstract paintings.
JAZ Fabry is an American Abstract Painter. He splits his time living summers in Paris France and winters on Maui in Hawaii. He currently resides on Maui, with an atelier at Treehouse Studios in Haiku. His art is featured in private collections across the United States and in Europe. For much of the past nine years Jaz lived in Lahaina on Maui, which was totally destroyed by a firestorm in August 2023. This tragic event provided a source of inspiration and motivation for paintings for months after the event. As a painter, over the past three years in Paris and Maui, Jaz created a significant body of work -- over a hundred paintings on canvas. Before launching his career as a painter, Jaz sold over a hundred large scale panoramic photographs as the featured artist at Capture Fine Art Gallery in Sonoma California wine country.
Previously, in 1992, Jaz Fabry was Co-founder of i3 Information & Imagination Inc, an Internet Tech Startup in Westport CT. During his tenure, he won 10 prestigious Awards as a Creative Director and Designer. In 1999, he sold his stake in i3 to finance his passion as a Fine Artist and Painter, relocating to St John Virgin Islands and Paris France. In 2004 he moved to Oakland California where he had an Artists Loft for five years before settling in Healdsburg California.
Jaz Fabry was born in Bronxville New York and grew up in New Canaan Connecticut. He studied art in Minnesota at Macalester College and earned his BFA Degree in Fine Art Photography and Painting from the University of Minnesota.
Jaz's conceptual digital art series, "Lahaina Town Lost" feature haunting images captured durring the Covid Pandemic -- doccumenting the deserted Hawaiian tourist town -- before the horrific firestorm terrorized and destroyed this idyllic island paradise he called home. His extreemly personal print series of historic Lahaina buildings, now destroyed by the fire, are digital constructions, splashed with bold color fields of geometric planes overlaid on the deserted streets and alleys now Lost Forever. Photographis prints from his "Lahaina Town Lost" Series were featured at two Exhibitions at LA Center for Digital Art (LACDA) in Los Angelas California the summer and fall of 2024.
Paintings by Jaz Fabry have been included in Fine Art Exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Minneapolis, Paris and Hawaii.
