About the artist

Fabian Wes Fleurant, a retired vascular surgeon, had taken the brush since dropping the surgeon scalpel.

Art Education

Fabian’s art education began with Jn Claude Garoute (Tiga), a renowned Haitian master and innovator of the technique of “Soleil Brulé”, then continued at The Art Students League of New York, the Pelham Art Center, the NSU Art Museum Art+Design School, Ft-Lauderdale, and Fat Village Center for the Arts, Ft Lauderdale. His studies were enhanced by many workshops and tutorials.

Artist Statement

Since my early drawing lessons in my youth, painting has been a constant interest, either visiting galleries, attending opening exhibits or collecting. Le Centre Art in 1943, had been a revelation, the spark igniting my passion for the visual art. Later as surgeon, now retired from cutting, sawing, reshaping guts, remodeling or rerouting blood vessels, artistic expressions had again been a part and parcel of my work in the art of healing. Forms and functions have always been components of my work and results have predictably been as good as the work in the making, the operation, the task at hand. Honest, truthful to myself, free from any constraints, painting continues to represent not an escape, an evasion but an affirmation, a wordless expression of inner self, either lofty peaceful purer ideas or earthly disquietudes and desires.

Shows and Exhibits

His paintings have been exhibited in the following locations:

  • New York City at the Art Students League Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery

  • The New Century Gallery, Chelsea NY

  • The Manhattan Borough President's Office

  • Fordham University Prep 6th Annual Exhibit; In Westchester County

  • The Focal Point Gallery, City Island, Bronx

  • The New Rochelle Art Association, New Rochelle Library

  • The New Rochelle Council on the Arts Community Exhibit the Mayor's Office

  • The Outreach Community Exhibit the Mayor’s Office

  • The Br. Kenneth Chapman Gallery Iona College

  • The Mamaroneck Artist Guild Gallery

  • The Mamaroneck Town Center

  • The Rye Arts Center

  • The Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY

  • The Bronxville Women’s Club

  • The Wheelhorse Gallery, Greenwich, CT

  • The Fat Village Center of the Arts, Ft-Lauderdale, Florida

    And many others local Galleries in New York and Florida.

    Fabian has membership in several Art Organizations including New Rochelle Art Association, the Mamaroneck Artists Guild, the New Rochelle Council on the Arts, the Haitian Art Society. He is a Life member of the Art Students League of New York.

Fabian Wes Fleurant has won many awards and recognitions.