🇫🇷🇮🇹🇺🇸 Painter, born in Boston Oct.9th, 1973.
Chris has lived in East Bay California since 1999.
He produces paintings in his studio for collectors worldwide. His artwork is a mixture of art-deco and the avant-garde, building a gallery of one-of-a-kind collectibles.
His portraits are hand brushed renditions of actors and musicians, including generations of pop art.
The surface of his paintings are varnished, in loose brushwork, with acrylics and oils onto canvas, cardboard, metal, paper, vinyl and wood. Some pieces are small intimate frame sized paintings and some are wall size.
Over the years, Chris has volunteered to showcase his artwork in venues at events. Chris enjoys music and mixed media art projects. He has produced series of digital prints and nature photography inspired by the scenery of California.
Past Awards
·2014 Top5 East Bay Painter -AliveMagazine, CA
·1999 Best Seller PaintingsDirect –USAToday, NY
1992-1999 Boston
·Art Curator -Newbury St. Gallery28
·Guard -Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Education
BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992-1996
·New England School of Art & Design, Suffolk
2021 Fabbri family, Italy 1920’s, pencil and acrylic on wood 28″x22″ •
2021 Fabbri family, Italy 1920’s, pencil and acrylic on wood 21″x12″ •
1994 Grandfather, (RIP 6/29/11-1/22/96)
oil and acrylic on canvas 20″x16″ •
Chris Fabbri’s Grandfather, Joseph Febo Fabbri, born and raised in Rimini, Italy, was an artist, producing a number of drawings in the 1920s. Joseph came to America early 1927 and eventually gave Chris the drawings that he produced. Each piece has an art school ink stamp and are kept in a private collection. In the Summer time, Chris visited his grandfather when he was living in Southern Maine in the 1980s.
2003 Father (RIP 8/29/40-9/14/07)
acrylic on canvas 36″x24″ •
Chris’s Father, Carl H. Fabbri, born and raised in Chelsea and played saxophone in Chelsea High School. He was a sergeant in the United States National Guard before being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, which physically disabled him in the late 1970s.
2009 Lady of Jolly Flowers, Mother, acrylic on wood 14″x18″ • Chris’s mother was raised in Chelsea, and was a sister in a Poor Clares Monastery in Jamaica Plain, MA.
2011 Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, acrylic on cardboard 5″x7″ •
Chris’s Great Grandfather, Amleto Fabbri (RIP 1887-1941), was born and raised in Northern Italy and brought his family to America in early 1927. He worked as an Italian defense secretary, in Boston, in the historical 1927 Sacco & Vanzetti trial.
2009 Lucille, grandmother (RIP 1911-1980), acrylic on canvas 30″X20″ •
Chris’ grandmother, worked as a Nurse from 1929-1941 at Boston’s St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
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