My approach to art making has made me feel more deeply the extent to which spatial experience is the basis of perception, and that creating images is a form of making meaning from experience. My work stakes a claim for the role that image making plays in constructing our conscious relationship to our surroundings and explores our need to establish deep connections to the physical world.
Location: Long Island City, NY 11101
Email: fabozzip@gmail.com
Phone: 917 304 5654
Instagram: paul_fabozzi_studio
Paul Fabozzi’s paintings and works on paper have been included in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Rome, Busan, and beyond. His work is included 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 New York Public Library. Awards include a fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Café Royal Cultural Foundation. He edited an anthology of writings on contemporary art—titled Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art since 1945—published by Prentice-Hall and is currently Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at St. John’s University in Queens, NY.

Reflection Point: Paintings

My creative process is fueled by episodic experiences of awareness, often inside architectural space. Body, location, temporality. Sensation, geometry, change. The direct experience of space fascinates me—how it acts as a field of operation for a mode of being, affirming that we participate every day in our conscious awareness of the world around us and recognize that the very act of making meaning involves an endless process of attention, awareness, and reflection.
MoMA #1aOil on canvas 48x72 inches, 2022
MoMA #1bOil on canvas 48x72 inches, 2022
MoMA #1cOil on canvas 48x72 inches, 2022
MoMA #2aOil on canvas 40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #2bOil on canvas 40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #2cOil on canvas 40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #3aOil on canvas40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #3bOil on canvas40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #3bOil on canvas40x30 inches, 2023
MoMA #1a x9, Oil on canvas 40x60 inches, 2021
MoMA #1b x9, Oil on canvas 40x60 inches, 2021
MoMA#1,a,b,c Oil on canvas Each 48x32 inches, 2021

Reflection Point: Works on Paper

MoMA #1a x18Watercolor/colored pencil on paper 32 x 29 inches, 2021
MoMA #1b x18 Watercolor/colored pencil on paper 32 x 29 inches, 2021
MoMA #1a x18 Watercolor/colored pencil on paper 32 x 29 inches, 2021
MoMA #2aWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #2bWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #2cWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #3aWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #3bWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #3cWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #1aWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #1bWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022
MoMA #1cWatercolor/colored pencil on paper 19x14.75 inches, 2022

Curved Locators: Paintings

Wandering in New York, Rome, Istanbul, Rio de Janeiro, London and Berlin. Using specific buildings as points of confluence for my urban drifting. Curved architectural forms have many specific articulations, formal, symbolic, functional. I found myself inside places of worship, entertainment, material consumption, contemplation, transit and governing. The works in this series, are a tactile and visual record of my personal reckoning with these spaces, a way of forcing them to look back at me.
Berlin, OS #1Oil on canvas 60x40 inches, 2019
Berlin, OS #2Oil on canvas 60x40 inches, 2019
Rome, Ivo #1Oil on canvas 72x48 inches, 2018
Rome, Ivo #1Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2018
London, B M #1Oil on canvas 72x48 inches, 2016
London, B M #2Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2016
Berlin, RT #1Oil on Canvas 48x32 inches, 2023
Rio, MC #1Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2021
Berlin, G L #1Oil on canvas 60x40 inches, 2022
Berlin, G L #2Oil on canvas 60x40 inches, 2023
Rome, Pantheon #1Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2021
Istanbul, Kanyon #1Oil on canvas 32x48 inches, 2019

Curved Locators: Works on Paper/Mixed Media

Rome, Pantheon#3Ink and colored pencil on Mylar /gouache on paper. 19x13 inches, 2020
Rio, MC #1Ink and colored pencil on Mylar/gouache on paper. 19x13 inches, 2020
Rome, MAXXI#2Ink and colored pencil on Mylar/gouache on paper. 19x13 inches, 2020
Rome, Ivo #2Graphite on paper 41x28 inches, 2016
Rio, MAC#3Graphite on paper 41x28 inches, 2018
Rio, MC#3Graphite on paper 41x28 inches, 2018
Rome, MAXXI#2Graphite on paper 41x28 inches, 2018
Rome, Pantheon#3Graphite on paper 41x28 inches, 2018

Site Translations: Paintings

How can experience, bound by time, be located? How can image-making become a means for layering physical, emotional, and mental conceptions of space? By employing rigorous means of visually dissecting and translating photographic artifacts of my experiences of specific sites in several international cities, I am attempting, through the creation of images, to dissolve the linguistically determined dichotomies between external and internal, organic and geometric, presentness and memory, thought and feeling.
Rio, Petro #1x3Oil on canvas 48x72 inches, 2019
Rio, Petro #1Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2019
Corviale#1 x3Oil on canvas 48x72 inches, 2014
Corviale #1Oil on Canvas 48x32 inches, 2013
Corviale #2Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2013
Corviale #3Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2013
Ivo #3Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2015
Ivo #2Oil on canvas 48x32 inches, 2015
QBB #1Oil on canvas48x32 inches, 2015
LIC #1Oil on canvas48x32 inches, 2023
QBB #1x6Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2015
Istanbul, HS #1x6Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2016

Site Translations: Mixed Media

QBB #1Colored pencil on Mylar/ gouache on paper30 x 30 inches, 2012
QBB #2Colored pencil on Mylar/ gouache on paper.30 x 30 inches, 2012
Corviale #2Colored pencil and ink on Mylar/gouache on paper.30 x 22 inches, 2012
Corviale #1Colored pencil and ink on Mylar/gouache on paper.30 x 22 inches, 2012
Corviale #1 x3Colored pencil and ink on Mylar/ gouache on paper.31.5 x 47 inches, 2012
Corviale #2dColored pencil on Mylar/ pigment print16.5 x 13 inches, 2011
Corviale #1cColored pencil on Mylar/ pigment print.16.5 x 13 inches, 2011
Corviale #2cColored pencil on Mylar/pigment print,16.5 x 13 inches, 2011
Porta Aurea/Yedikule #3Colored pencil, ink on Mylar/ gouache on paper.30 x 22 inches, 2012
Porta Aurea/Yedikule #1 x2Colored pencil, ink on Mylar/ gouache on paper 46 x 30 inches, 2012
Porta Aurea/Yedikule #2 x2Colored pencil, ink on Mylar/ gouache on paper46 x 30 inches, 2012
Ivo #1 x4Colored pencil on Mylar/ gouache on paper.30 x 94 inches, 2012

Spectral Variants: Mixed Media

These works feature ruled lines and bits of opaque geometry confined within the outlines of sets of shapes culled from photographs I took while walking in New York City. I then used these forms as the building blocks for further drawings, made by separating colors, shifting scales, layering and so forth— in a continuous process of generative translation. My goal is to push down underneath the appearance of the visual environment to articulate something more basic about the mental and physical rhythm of moving through space.
Spectral Variant #1a .4Colored pencil and gouache on paper30 x 22 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #1b .4Colored pencil and gouache on paper30 x 22 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #1b .4Colored pencil and gouache on paper30 x 22 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #1 .12Colored pencil and gouache on paper31.5 x 47 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #2b. 8Colored pencil and gouache on paper38 x 29.75 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #2a. 8Colored pencil and gouache on paper38 x 29.75 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #2 .12Colored pencil and gouache on paper31.5 x 47 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #3b .4Colored pencil and gouache on paper30 x 22 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #3a. 8Colored pencil and gouache on paper38 x 29.75 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #3c 4x12Colored Pencil on Mylar42 x 92 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #1 8.5Colored Pencil on Mylar42 x 92 inches, 2008
Spectral Variant #3b 4x12Colored Pencil on Mylar42 x 92 inches, 2008

Data Walks: Paintings

Walking around New York City with a camera in hand and hooked to a pedometer allows one to collect a lot of data. Shapes that are culled from the photos taken and numbers counted by the pedometer are the raw material of this series. As the information about every conceivable part of our waking lives from every angle mount and the structures of organizing this data become more complex, the body retreats. This work mirrors that retreat but at the same time celebrates what, for me, is the cornerstone of being—the simple act of breathing as I move through space.
Astoria #1Oil on canvas 48x60 inches, 2005
Queensboro Bridge #1Oil on canvas 48x60 inches, 2005
Fifth Avenue #1Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2005
Astoria #2Oil on canvas 48x60 inches, 2005
Chelsea #1Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2005
Midtown #1Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2005
GC to AL #1Oil on canvas 60x48 inches, 2005
Data WalksInstallation viewGallery Siano, 2006Philadelphia, PA

Data Walks: Mixed Media

Steps#1Etched. Clear extruded acrylic 48x96 inches, 2006
Steps#1Etched. Clear extruded acrylic 48x96 inches, 2006
Local Shapes, #1Stainless Steel 20x30 inches, 2006
Data#1Handmade book30.5x 220 inches, 2006
Rust PathsRust on paper and raw steel Dimensions variable, 2006
Distance RubbingsNine handmade artists books Dimensions variable 2006
Rust PathsRust on paper 42x42 inches, 2006
Marking TimeGraphite on paper 42x96 inches, 2006

Rome Series: Paintings

The works in the Rome Series are based on historically significant locations and buildings in Rome that I have visited regularly. They are created using three distinct methods of mark making that can be read as metaphors for the varieties of experiences of place—from the organic, intuitive, phenomenal to the geometric, rational, theoretical. What is particularly fascinating for me is the connection between experiential and theoretical interpretations of place.
Il Tempieto #1Watercolor gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2001
San Pietro #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2001
Sant’Agnese Fuori la Mura #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2000
Colosseo #2Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2000
Catacombe #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2001
San Stefano Rotundo #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2000
Domus Aurea #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2000
Pantheon #1Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil on paper18x15 inches, 2000

Rome Series: Works on Paper

Santa Maria del Popolo #3Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
Campidoglio #3Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
Piazza della Repubblica #3Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
il Tempieto #1Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
Santa Sabina #3Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
San Carlo #1Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
Villa Giulia #2Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999
EUR #3Graphite on paper 22x15 inches 1999

Select Exhibition Views

You Are Here, with Inliquid Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
You Are Here, with Inliquid Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
Recent AcquisitionsNeuberger Museum of ArtPurchase, NY; 2020
Place, Translation, VariationLycoming College Art GalleryWilliamsport, PA,; 2019
Place, Translation, VariationLycoming College Art GalleryWilliamsport, PA, 2019
Place, Translation, VariationLycoming College Art GalleryWilliamsport, PA, 2019
QBB#2 Lobby CommissionRise LICLong Island City, NY, 2022
Art Busan, with Gallery HoBEXCO Exhibition Center IIBusan, South Korea,2015
Curved LocatorsSeraphin GalleryPhiladelphia, PA, 2016
Curved LocatorsSeraphin GalleryPhiladelphia, PA, 2016
FoundationsSeraphin Gallery at The YardPhiladelphia, PA, 2017
Place: Exterior/Interior/Body/MindMunson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY, 2019
Spatial TranslationsLeonard Pearlstein GalleryDrexel UniversityPhiladelphia, PA, 2013
Site TranslationsL.G. Tripp GalleryPhiladelphia, PA, 2012
Site TranslationsL.G. Tripp GalleryPhiladelphia, PA, 2012
Spectral Variants: New Large WorksAtrium Gallery at 153 East 53rd Street, New York, NY, 2009
Spectral Variants: New Large Works Gallery at 153 East 53rd Street, New York, NY, 2009
Data Walks: The PaintingsGallery SianoPhiladelphia, PA, 2006.
Data Walks: The PaintingsGallery SianoPhiladelphia, PA, 2006.
Center for Biological ResearchUniversity of Pennsylvania

Documentary Film Links

Reflection Point: MoMA
Spectral Variants

Select Bibliography

Salvatore, Alessandro. Lucera, May 27, 2024.
Mattera, Joanne. Italianità, 2023.
Papi, Liza, The Aesthetics of Art, 2017
Marcello, Neil. Paul Fabozzi at Seraphin Gallery, 2016
Curved Locators catalog, 2016.
A Gathering of Memory and Light, catalog, 2013
Noble, Alastair. Paths, catalog, 2013
Newhall, Edith. Paul Fabozzi at LG Tripp 2012
Wagner, Amanda. Paul Fabozzi at LG Tripp, 2012
Il Tempo di Corviale, 2011 Essay
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris. 100 New York Painters, 2006
Data Walks, catalog, 2006
Sozanski, Edward, Paul Fabozzi at Parallels Gallery
Davidson, Margaret. Contemporary Drawing
Fabozzi, Paul, Artists, Critics, Context. 2002
Parrish. Matthew, Paul Fabozzi at Paper Plus
Markings, catalog, 2000.
Paul Fabozzi: Selected Bibliography

Upcoming Exhibitions

A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Artists Inspired by their Italian Heritage
Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College New London, CT
September 3 to October 15, 2024
Paul Fabozzi: Reflection Point, MoMA
Project: ArtSpace, New York, NY
Jun 12 to Jul 25, 2026
Paul Fabozzi: LIC Morphology
Garage Art Center, Queens, NY
June, 2027
Paul Fabozzi Studio | Long Island City, NY 11101
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