My paintings are emotive portraits and landscapes of shifting habitats and fleeting environments through a romantic lens. The vulnerability of my subject matter and the strength it welds, is a gentle confrontation that ignites the senses. Nature is lost, found, replaced and redefined.
The surfaces of my paintings are layered and textured. Strokes, gestural marks, blobs and pours describe imagery, movement and light.
My metal sculptures are emblems of nature’s small giants. They’re assemblages of noble metals; rods, tubing, sheets and wire. The metals are bent, woven, pierced and sewn together. In 2023, four large metal assemblage sculptures (each approx. 10×10 ft) were permanently installed on the outside wall of the school building, PS 107, near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. The installation is titled, Ecosystem [Rebirth]; a Bumblebee, Spider, Caterpillar and Butterfly. Another large assemblage sculpture, Dragonfly (approx 10×12 ft), permanently hangs from the 1st floor ceiling of the Morris Campus High School in the Bronx. The two sculptures, Dandelions (approx 10×5 ft), were temporarily installed next to the Manhattan Bridge and at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Marney Fuller received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her studio is in DUMBO.
Managing Nature
Nature serves me. I want just enough trees to feel rural but, not to ruin my view. I want roses crawling up my trellis, not the wild vines rooted near my fence. My yard is filled with flowers and shrubs that tell me the seasons. It’s a prepared canvas to show off my love of the land. The racoon wants in. The black bear searches for food in my trash. The deer roam freely and eat the plants I nurtured and coddled. The tract houses replaced the farm. The farm replaced the woods. The frogs no longer croak. The creek no longer exists. My relationship with nature is from the window. I am encroachment. What is nature and how do I define it?
Marney is an artist and art educator. In 2007, she started the art school, Art Workshop Experience (AWE). In 2021, she received a National Gold Medal Art Educator Award from Scholastic Art & Writing Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. She’s been a teaching artist and artist-in-residence at several under-served schools in NYC in past years. Through various education grants, she has produced public art installations with NYC students.
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