How can painting and drawing evoke the physical sensations and conceptual associations one has while navigating architectural spaces that can’t be reduced to its purely visual elements? By suspending a temporal experience within a static image, my paintings and drawings offer an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which bodily experience is overlaid at every turn with informational and mental pulsations. My overarching goal is to make images that remind us of our deep need to actively establish visual, tactile, and reflective connections to our physical world.
Artist Biography
Paul Fabozzi’s paintings and works on paper have been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Rome, London, 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. 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 at St. John’s University in New York City.
Education
1993 Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA MFA, Painting
1988 School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, NY BFA, Painting
1989 Cortona, Italy program with the University of Georgia at Athens
1987 Siena, Italy program with SUNY Buffalo
Awards & Honors
2021 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Artist Grant
2004 - 2014, 2016 Faculty Recognition Award, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2013 Outstanding Achievement Award, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2005 Fellowship in Drawing, New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
1998, 1999 Summer Research Grant, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
1992 Teaching Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Georgia Foundation Grant for Travel in Italy
1988 Clara Katherine Nelson Memorial Award for Distinction in Painting, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Bibliography
2017 Papi, Liza, The Aesthetics of Art: Understanding What We See, Cognella, San Diego, CA
2016 Marcello, Neil, “Monumental Abstraction—Paul Fabozzi at Seraphin Gallery,” The Artblog: Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof, December 27, 2016
Moshin, Parvez, “The Pensive City: Transience and Convergence Beyond Space,” Paul Fabozzi Curved Locators (exhibition catalog)
Fabozzi, Paul, “A Gathering of Memory and Light,” Sublime Porte: Art and Contemporary Turkey (exhibition catalog)
Schwartz, Chip, “AIGA Philadelphia Presents ‘MAPnificent: Artists Use Maps,’” Knight Foundation, March 7, 2013
2012 Newhall, Edith, “Site Specific,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 23, 2012
Wagner, Amanda V, “Site Specifics,” Philadelphia Daily News, September 14, 2012
Schwartz, Chip, “The Role of Abstraction Analyzed at L.G. Tripp Gallery,” Knight Foundation, May 17, 2012
2011 Parrish, Matthew, “NYC Artist Visits Paper+,” Williamsport Sun-Gazette, July 24, 2011
Davidson, Margaret, "Contemporary Drawing: Key Concepts and Techniques," New York, NY: Watson-Guptill, 2011
Fabozzi, Paul, “Il Tempo di Corviale,” Humanities Review, volume 9, issue 1, spring 2011
Tierman, Alexander, "Minimal, Emotional, and Visceral in Old City," artblog, May 16, 2010
Newhall, Edith, “Lines and Spaces,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 2010
2006 Dantzic, Cynthia Maris, "100 New York Painters," Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 2006
Bacon, Charlotte, “Ordinary Wonder,” Data Walks (exhibition catalog)
Sigler, Jeremy, “A Conversation in the Studio,” Data Walks (exhibition catalog), 2006
2003 Saccà, Annalisa, “Le voci della pietra,” Il filorosso: semestrale di cultura, #34, 2003
Sozanski, Edward J, “Abstractions Evoke a Sense of Place, from Experience or Lore,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 21, 2003
Strauss, R.B., “In the Galleries,” AroundPhilly.com, March 7, 2003
2000 Saccà, Annalisa, “Paul Fabozzi e i luoghi della memoria/and the Places of Memory,” Marcature/Markings (exhibition catalog), 2000
1999 Selvaggi, Giuseppe, “New York ed il suo Polmone Pulsante: Il viaggio italiano di Paul Fabozzi,” Il Giornale d’Italia, October 7, 1999
Collection
Public
Bank of America Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) Fidelity Investments Forest City Commercial Group Frost Museum of Art Geode Capital Management Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute Morgan Stanley Neuberger Museum of Art The New York Public Library NYU Langone Art Collection Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art The University of Pennsylvania Weatherspoon Art Museum
Professional Experience
1998 - present Professor of Fine Arts, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2005 - 2007 Department of Fine Arts Chair, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
1995 - 2001, 2003 - 2008 Co-coordinator of the Rome Summer Program, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
Gallery and Consulting Affiliations
G.W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York, NY Fine Art at Work, Inc., New York, NY Boston Art, Boston, MA Davis Editions, Tempe, AZ
Exhibitions
Solo
2020 Place, Translation, Variation, Davis Originals, online through Artsy
2019 Place, Translation, Variation, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA
2017 Foundations: An Exhibition Featuring Works from Paul Fabozzi's Curved Locator and Site Translations, Seraphin Gallery at The Yard, Philadelphia, PA
2016-2017 Curved Locators, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Site Translations, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Spectral Variants, LG Tripp Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Spectral Variants: New Large Works, Atrium Gallery at 153 East 53rd Street, New York, NY
2007 Lines of Regression, University of Pennsylvania, Kelly Writers House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Data Walks: The Paintings, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
Data Walks: The Installation, Carbon 14, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Le voci della pietra: Photographs 1998 – 2001, Polmone Pulsante Gallery, Rome, Italy
Rome: The Layers of Memory, Parallels Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 The Rome Series, The School of Architecture Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA
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