▲ Chris Fabbri, portrait paintings, Music: “Enlight” & “Way to Change”
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Artwork for the Abbey of New Clairvaux by Chris Fabbri,
acrylic paintings on canvas of the first 3 Abbots of New Clairvaux
Dom Eusebius Wagoner, Bernard Johnson and Thomas X. Davis
are now showing in the New Clairvaux Abbey in Vina, Northern California. Fabbri portrait drawings of William Randolph Hearst & Thomas Merton, are also showing in the Oliva wine tasting room of the Abbey. The portrait paintings are included in the historic SacredStones.org renovation project, a reformation of carved stones from the 12th century Spanish Abbey, Santa Maria de Ovila, currently being rebuilt. View photos. The stone walls of the Abbey were bought in Guadalajara, Spain, by San Franciscan, William Randolph Hearst (RIP 1863-1951). The stones were shipped to the San Francisco bay in 1931, and placed in the Golden Gate Park for the last 70 years. Recently the stones were trucked to Vina, CA. Now standing again in the original form and purpose, as well as one of the oldest buildings in the United States. The monks maintain and harvest over 500 acres of vineyards.
The New Clairvaux Abbey is a Franciscan Benedictine Cistercian
Trappist monastery in Vina, Tehama County, Northern California, USA
View photos from the Abbey, or search: New Clairvaux on Youtube
*view abclocal.go.com, video review
NOW SHOWING Portrait drawings by Chris Fabbri
William Randolph Hearst RIP 1863-1951 & Thomas Merton, RIP 1915-1968,
pencil drawings on paper. Now showing within the Ovila wine tasting room
of The New Clairvaux Abbey 7th Street in Vina, California,
on historical Leland Stanford’s Vina Ranch. Open everyday 11am-5pm
2011 Soul of My Savior, acrylic painting on wood 39″x28″
2009 Truck Me Your Love, acrylic paint on wood, 40″x29″
