Donnelly Marks is a New York City–based sculptor and photographer whose work explores the flow of consciousness through transience, imperfection, and material transformation. Guided by intuition and chance, Marks creates new visual narratives from found materials—crushed cardboard, concrete, and metal—allowing spontaneous connections to shape the creative process.

Marks earned a BFA in Sculpture and Fine Art Photography from Carnegie Mellon University and has lectured on photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Their work has been exhibited at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center (a Smithsonian Affiliate, MD); Westbeth Gallery; Prince Street Gallery; Queens College Art Center; Jamaica Arts Center; Montana Modern Fine Art; and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, among others.

This exhibition celebrates the power of play — not as escape, but as liberation. The selected sculptures emerge from consistent, daily practice. Using materials at hand, these ephemeral constructions of plastic, cardboard, metal, and paint resist pretension, perfection, and preciousness. Each piece bears the imprint of the hand. Textures are rough-hewn, the scale intimate, the feeling expansive — even sacred. Through photography and altered perceptions of scale, the sculptures are transfigured: the small becomes monumental, abstraction crystallizes into metaphor, warrior-like figures arise, and casual constructions transform into symbols of power, survival, and strength.

Paul Fabozzi’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows across New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Rome, Busan, and beyond. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Frost Museum of Art, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library.

Fabozzi is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and support from the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. He is also the editor of Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art since 1945 (Prentice-Hall), an anthology of writings on contemporary art.

He currently serves as Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, and as Creative Director of Moves: Movimenti Creativi, a visiting artist residency program based in Lucera, Italy.

Fabozzi earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design in 1993 and his BFA from Alfred University’s School of Art and Design in 1988. His formative studies also included programs in Cortona, Italy, with the University of Georgia at Athens in 1989, and in Siena, Italy, with SUNY Buffalo in 1987.

In LIC Morphology, Paul Fabozzi presents a series of interrelated paintings inspired by his wanderings beneath the elevated train lines of Long Island City, Queens. Using the dynamic intersections of structure, light, and movement as his foundation, Fabozzi transforms this ever-changing urban landscape into a meditation on rhythm, space, and time.

Over the past fifteen years, Fabozzi has observed and documented the dramatic transformation of the Queensboro Plaza area through an ongoing archive of photographs. His paintings reimagine these impressions through layered mark-making and shifting tonalities that evoke both the industrial past and the architectural energy of the present. In LIC Morphology, the city becomes both subject and metaphor—a living structure in constant motion.