Sapere Art

fabie de Silva2010
fabiedesilva.com

chicago
 Artist Statement

Inspiration (exhale) is about the passion. From the root word: INSPIRED, it is
really:

• IN - SPIRED (Spirit)

 hat meant that as an artist, my passion is rooted on being in-line, in-sync,

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in-congruence with my spirit. The highest realization that we all can attain is
the awareness and cultivation of our spirit.

 s much as it is the hyperbole of our own existence, it is also as much the

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banality. Meaning, anything and everything under the sun, so to speak – is
inspiring because it is as much part of us.

 hus at any given moment, conditions, circumstances and parameters in our

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life...whether emotional, intellectual, visual, aural, and other sensory stimulations
are inspirations to me.

 he paintings produced out of these are figures in their unguarded moments

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such as writing, standing, sipping coffee, sitting....etc. Nothing “glamorous”
but the little things most often overlooked.

 o me, these are inspiring because it present moments in our lives that don’t
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need preparation or a psyching up to see, feel, touch and understand them.
These are the behind the scenes moments and environment that many won’t
talk about.

I feel these scenes and show them by my expressive use of brushmarks, colors
and senses of movement on my canvases. These are the exploration and ex-
pression part that transcend the concept, emotion or feelings.

The process of work itself and the formality of painting is in itself an inspiration
to me. The concepts, emotions or feelings are the launching pad while the nitty-
gritty drips and strokes of painting takes over, thus the CONCEPTUAL and the
FORMAL marriage being witnessed as a participant before and during the
creation, is utopia.

 he whole experience then becomes the pleasure and bane of painting. The yins
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and yangs of life as a macrocosm in my work.

 ith every work I finish, is the hope and realization of the simplicity of life I have.
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I exist as a participant in this speck of dust called life as a miniscule artist show-
ing those fleeting moments from the wheels of life.
 Bio

 orn the 6th of June 1968 in Manila, Philippines, Eulalio Fabie Silva, III was
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named after his internationally acclaimed Philippine artist father. Growing up
withiinartistic environment, helped him set himself in the footsteps of his father
in the endeavor of the visual arts.

Eulalio, the first of 4 siblings of the elder artist, emigrated to the United States in
1980 and later continued his quest to become an artist while being educated at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989.

 e Silva has continued exhibiting in various group shows around Chicago while
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serving as a curator/exhibitor at the North Lakeside Cultural Center of Chicago
during the early 90s. He has exhibited to make his own indelible mark in cre-
ating his own genres and compositions based on visual observations of land-
scapes and figures amidst their emotional or existential life. He taps on the
famed Gauguin’s ever questioning stance: D’où Venons Nous / Que Sommes
Nous / Où Allons Nous (Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are
We Going?)...the question of our own identity, our immediate surroundings and
other beings.

 e Silva’s main influences are from the plein-air artists and abstract expression-
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ists of the 50s and 60s that favor the formal qualities of a painting processes
of building then rebuilding, creating then defacing while giving importance on
expressing the internal turmoil and triumphs through brushstrokes and color.

 igning his work “Eulalio Fabie de Silva” set himself separate yet descended
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from his father while having the same name and endeavor on the arts while
acknowledges his mother’s maiden name “Fabie” – a tradition inherited from the
Spanish culture that occupied his homeland, the Philippines for 350 years. “De
Silva” is from the original surname before it was “shortened”. Thus the sym-
bolic gesture correspond to the “new” name signify a new outlook in life as a
person and as an artist.

 e Silva is married to Roseanne Rasmussen of Niagara Falls, NY is an aspiring

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poet of her own who recently published her poem “The Homeless Man” with
other poets in the anthology entitled: “ETERNAL HEARTLAND”.

 ichael Patrick Silva, their lone offspring is a potential artist/chef/inventor at 13

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years old who won the Best of Show, 1st Prize (Kindergarten - High School),
Best in Painting and Critics’ Choice award in Bloomingdale Art Museum at the
age of 4. He is now a 7th grader at Aspira-Haugan Middle School.

 e Silva is slated for his major solo art exhibition at Benedictine University at
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Lisle, IL in September of 2011.
 Recent Works

The Art Studio - situated in a small apartment room, it is constantly

populated with figures, art materials and other “stuffs” to clutter and
provide stimulation conducive towards painting.
Juan Luna’s* La Bulaqueña (1895) – is the quintissential Filipina who is La Bulaqueña I and II
demure, conservative, inevitably “religiosa” and the typical iconic model (After Juan Luna)
woman; in fact, transculturally universal. 30” x 48” / 36” x 48”
oil on canvas
De Silva’s renditions of La Bulaqueña I and II is an attempt to revisit and Autumn 2010
explore more than two hundred years of the Filipina’s “imprisonment” from
the cultural grips and now into the more liberated and hopefully equal foot-
ing with the Filipino man - inevitably towards gender equality transcended
into the social, public and professional life.

Painted in a lower-body nude while donning the “Maria Clara” top dress -
she maintains her identity but now bravely facing new challenges with her
new role. Now in the mainstream of neo-American life, she still faces the
cultural grips and trauma.

*Juan Luna is a notable Filipino artist before the turn of the 20th Century. He studied in Madrid and was
the Grand Prix Award winner for his epic painting (La Spolarium) – in the 1884 Madrid Exposition of Fine
Arts.
 Waiting To Meditate series


Inspired by recent meditations of ourselves as light beings with the physical
bodies, the works in this series are expressions as well as explorations of that
energy, light and dilemma.

Subtle humor rests within the title in itself as a double-entendre in which seeing
ourselves as hesitant beings not yet becoming towards our realization that we
are already light creatures – meaning that we were already “created in the image
of God or creator.”

 herefore “waiting” is an enigmatic and self-created symbolism by us. This

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self-fabrication is what separates us from those already self-realized such as
the sages, the holies and/or the simple beings who professed simplicity in life in
knowing that we are one with our surroundings.

 ith the undertones of Buddhist / Taoists within these pieces, her surroundings
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shows the splendor of nature or the banalities of the urban space or tenements -
in one’s bedroom or living room space.

 er hopeful assimilation is another issue wherein she is forever existing physi-

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cally while her mind and emotion wanders to meditate “on herself.” Putting
attention and even pressure upon herself to be one within herself and her sur-
roundings.

If anything, these pieces are meant to parody ourselves in the midst of our busy
lives whether we are in the ‘rat race’ to upend someone in the professional and
corporate ladder or simply busy with our family lives.

Like a detached actor in a play – on her soliloquy.

Waiting for what? Waiting for whom? Or is she really waiting?

Waiting to Meditate
36” x 36”
oil on canvas
May 2010
Waiting to Meditate II
38” x 38”
oil on canvas
Autumn 2010
Waiting to Meditate III
38” x 38”
oil on canvas
Autumn 2010
Waiting to Meditate IV
38” x 38”
oil on canvas
Autumn 2010
 Waiting to Meditate V
38” x 38”
oil on canvas
Autumn 2010
 Ms. Quan Yin
50” x 66”
acrylic / oil on canvas
January 2010
 Eulalio Fabie de Silva
www.fabiedesilva.com • efdesilva@gmail.com
mobile 773.354.5868 • facebook: fabie de silva

Education:

1990 School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1989 Harold Washington College – Liberal Arts

Solo Exhibitions:

2010 Eulalio Fabie de Silva – Live Painting

Sapere Art / Intuitive Art Gallery – Chicago, IL June

2009 Impromptu/Intuition, Live Painting Performance 1 & 2 2009

Life Force Arts Center – Chicago, IL., September and October

2009 Eulalio Fabie de Silva
Riverside Arts Center / Freeark Gallery - Riverside, IL June

2003 Andrew Hayes’ portrait presentation

Las Palmas Restaurant – Chicago, IL September

1996 Eulalio Fabie de Silva

Rapoport & Kupets, Law offices – Rosemont, IL., June

1995 Eulalio Fabie de Silva

Curtis. Allen. Turner Fine Arts – Chicago, IL., February

Curatorials:

1996 Process in Art /Art in Process, an academic show about process and art
North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., July - August

1996 Salon Show 1996, an annual local artists exhibition

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., February

1994 Seasonal Transitions, a Chicago local juried show

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., September

1994 Facing Forward: Portraits of Asian Americans, Co-curation

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., May-June

1994 Salon Show 1994, an annual local artists exhibition

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., Feb-March
 Group Exhibitions:

2010 The Filipino as An Artist in Chicago, Chicago Artist Month
Philippine Consulate – Chicago, IL., October

2010 FUSION, Four Chicago Artists Group

Best Chicago Realty – Chicago, IL., September

 010 Sapere Art / Intuitive Works Gallery, Around The Coyote 2010
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 A Night With the Artist – Chicago, IL., September

2009 Impromptu/Intuition, Live Painting Performance 1 & 2 2009

Life Force Arts Center – Chicago, IL., September and October

2009 December Art Show, Selected Artist Group Show

Clareo Partners – Chicago, IL., December

2008 December Art Show, Selected Artist Group Show

Clareo Partners – Chicago, IL., December

2008 1st Clareo Group Show, Selected Artist Group Show

Clareo Partners – Chicago, IL., August

2008 Group of 4, 4 Emerging Chicago Artist

Baltazar Castillo Studio Gallery – St. Charles, IL., July

2007 ChicagoLANDscape, Selected Artist Group Show

Orleans Street Gallery – Chicago, IL., December

2007 Down The Street, Selected Artist Group Show

Open House – Chicago, IL., May

2006 Dreambox Foto & Gallery, Around The Coyote 2006

Dreambox Gallery – Chicago, IL., September

2006 Summer Group Show, Around The Coyote 2006

Baltazar Castillo Art Studio/Gallery – Chicago, IL., June-July

2005 Dreambox Foto & Gallery, Around The Coyote 2005

Dreambox Gallery – Chicago, IL., September

2005 Baird & Warner City West, Selected Artists

Baird & Warner Office Building – Chicago, IL., September

2005 Group Summer Show, Selected Artist Group Show

Baltazar Castillo Studio Gallery – Chicago, IL., June

Group Exhibitions: (continued)

2005 Beyond The Barrellman Contemporary Exhibition, Fil-Am Exhibition
ACME Gallery – Chicago, IL., August

2004 Fulton Collective Open House, art studio art exhibition

Fulton Collective Building – Chicago, IL., February

2004 Fulton Collective Open House, art studio art exhibition

Fulton Collective Building – Chicago, IL., Semptember

2003 DreamBox Foto & Gallery, a debut art feast participating within
Around the Coyote 2003 – Chicago, IL., September

2001 Art in Process, a continuing visual exhibit after the 1996 show
North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., Autumn

1997 Kulapol 1997, an art exhibition consortium of visiting and expatriate

Filipino-American artists. Rizal Cultural Center – Chicago, IL. Summer

1996 Pieces by 8, selected Chicago local artists

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., February

1996 Salon Show 1996, an annual local artists exhibition

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., February

1995 Sining Pilipino (Filipino Arts), local Filipino-American Art Show

Rizal Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., August

1995 A Mosaic of Art: East Asian/American Expressions

Gahlberg Gallery, College of duPage – Glen Ellyn, IL., Summer

1995 Salon Show 1995, an annual local artists exhibition

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., February

1994 Parker Press & Gallery

Chicago, IL., December – January

1994 Asian American Month Exhibition, selected Asian American Chicago artists
Harold Washington Public Library – Chicago, IL., Summer

1994 Seasonal Transitions, a Chicago local juried show (curatorial)

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., September

1994 Gallery 702, a debut Asian American local artists show

Chicago, IL. Autumn


Group Exhibitions: (continued)

1994 Art is Healing, Walsh Gallery curation (formerly known as Gallery East+West)
Hyde Park Hospital – Hyde Park, IL., May-June

1994 Common Ground, a Destin-Asian Visual Arts Exhibition (local Asian-
American art group) South Shore Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., Summer

1994 Facing Forward: Portraits of Asian Americans, co-curatorial

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., May-June

1994 Salon Show 1994, an annual local artists exhibition (curatorial)

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., Feb-March

1994 Landscapes, a juried Chicago local artists show

North Lakeside Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., September-October

1993 SacredScapes, selected artists

Gallery East+West (currently known as Walsh Gallery) – Chicago, IL.June-July

1993 Gallery East+West, selected Chicago local artists debut show

Gallery East+West (currently known as Walsh Gallery) – Chicago, IL Oct-Nov

1993 Degrees of Influence, an Asian American Arts Organization juried show

Beacon Street Gallery – Chicago, IL., April-June

1993 Destin-Asian, 1st Pan-Asian American Emerging Artists juried touring

exposition, The Chicago Cultural Center, North Lakeside Cultural Center &
The South Shore Cultural Center – Chicago, IL., May-Sept.
Gahlberg Gallery, College of duPage – Glen Ellyn, IL., Summer

1993 Discovery and Diversity, an Asian American Arts Organization juried show
Malcolm X College Gallery – Chicago, IL., January

1993 Positive Images, a SOMISM Foundation selected artists exhibit about

AIDS and experiences. Daley Center – Chicago, IL., January

1992 Kindred Spirits–Waves Apart, selected Filipino American artists

Filipino American Historical Society exhibition
Westin Hotel – Chicago, IL., July 1-3

1992 Philippine Impressions, selected Filipino American Artists

SOMISM Foundation and the Society of Filipino American Artists
SOMISM Foundation – Chicago, IL., August-September

 Recent Publicities:

2010 G
 allery Guide (Midwest Edition - January 2010) – Article about Sapere Art / Intui-
tive Works Gallery and interview with owner and artist Gary Marr. Unconvention-
al approach by Gary amidst the current financial challenges of our times while
featuring artists without compromise.

2010 G
 allery Guide (Midwest Edition - May 2010) – My writing about the process of works
featuring Ms. Quan Yin and Buddha Lifting the Heavens I. These impromptu pieces
were painted LIVE during a demo at the Energy Arts Center Gallery (Lincoln Park) in
two parts (September/October of 2009.
 Various Publicities:

2010 Chicago Art Magazine – Beyond the Coyote – The WPB Tradition Continues by
Katryn Born. “Mike Stokes Juan’s Fire” featured online being showed at Sapere Art /
Intuitive Gallery.

2010 G
 apers Block .com – Live Painting Eulalio Fabie de Silva at Sapere Art Friday and Sat-
urday, June 4 & 6

2010 Chicago Art Examiner, Live Painting Eulalio Fabie de Silva at Sapere Art Friday and
Saturday, June 4 & 6 by Darell Roberts Examiner.com – Chicago, IL., June 2

Various Publicities:

2009 T
 he Slant – Asian American News Segment Feature on current Asian-American artist in
Chicago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IFuvwlOHM

2009 Gate House Chicago – Interview online broadcast

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2IFuvwlOHM

2007 Asian American News Network – Korean News Agency Interview broadcasted
on local TV – Lenny Kim
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v827bb1eAi8

2007 The Epoch Times - Article interview by Fred C. Wilson III about being a
profile of outstanding Filipino Artist

2003 WGN-Channel 9 news – Presentation of Anchorwoman Tamron Hall’s portrait

live on short segment about Hearts Foundation – Chicago, IL February

2003 Chicago Tribune – GLARE by columnist Bill Zwecker about Publicist

Andrew Hayes’ presentation of portrait held at Las Palmas Restaurant
– Chicago, IL September

1993 Filipino American Historical Society, a short photo and informational

documentation of Filipino American immigrants. Featured within the
Society of Filipino American Artist (photo)

1993 The Chicago Reader, documentation of Destin-Asian, The first Pan Asian
American Emerging Artists touring exhibit in Chicago. The Chicago Cultural
Center, The North Lakeside Cultural Center and
The South Shore Cultural Center

1993 The Chicago Reader, Curtis, Allen, Turner Fine Arts publicity with 2 photos of
artworks featured in the Gallery Section.