fadelsculpture

Being born in Lebanon to a Lebanese father and American mother, and raised mostly in South Carolina, Fadel has always felt a sense of diasporic fluid identity.  He earned a BFA from Winthrop University in SC and a MFA from the University of Arizona in Tucson, both in sculpture, and received many distinctions, including the Centennial Award, the Edward Francis Dunn Scholarship, and is a Medici Scholar.  Among other experiences in academia, Fadel taught as an adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona and as the Sculpture Shop Technician at Yale University in Connecticut alongside his practice as an artist.   He is currently in Charleston, SC on the Ashley River, where he resides in his floating studio—a vessel he and his partner are converting into an artist residency.

 

Fadel’s artworks have been exhibited many times in several cities in the USA from New York City to San Francisco, including a collaborative installation at the ISEA Conference in Dubai UAE.  His fabrication skills have seen him working with many professional artists and have even taken him to Dubai and the 55th Venice Biennale at the Maldives Pavilion.  Conceptually he examines fluidity in reference to ego-oriented objects using fabricated, analog machines comprised primarily of wood and steel.  In this manipulation of fluid and form, he seeks to further interpret our human ties to the sea and its relation to individual and societal culture, discourse, and transience.