Nature and the many facets of its definition, is integral to the art of Marney Fuller. She’s a painter and sculptor. Marney’s art references the fleeting environment. When her family moved to Seattle from Southern CA, she watched local farmland and the surrounding woods, bulldozed down for tract housing. Creeks were paved and the frogs were gone. The temporality and fragility of ecosystems has influenced her art and the impact of how nature is perceived. Marney has lived in Brooklyn since 1983. She received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Her studio is in DUMBO. Four metal assemblage sculptures (each approx. 10×10 ft) were installed on the outside wall of the school building, PS 107, near Prospect Park in Park Slope titled, Ecosystem [Rebirth]; a Bumblebee, Spider, Caterpillar and Butterfly. She’s done other large metal sculptures such as, Dragonfly, (approx 10×12 ft), which hangs from the 1st floor ceiling of the Morris Campus High School in the Bronx and Dandelions, which had been installed next to the Manhattan Bridge and at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Marney is also an art educator. In 2007, she started an art school for teens called, Art Workshop Experience (AWE) from her studio. 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 under-served schools in NYC in the past years. Through various grants, she was able to produce several public art installations with NYC students. She’s married and has a son.

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My art heralds the pollinators and givers of life with the undercurrent of fleeting and diminishing habitats. I celebrate the familiar; the creatures and plants that surround us everyday. They’re the bellwethers. My iconography is of changing boundaries and the impermanence of the environment. Movement, light and time are characteristic of all of my art. My paintings are emotive landscapes about our relationship with nature. The surfaces are layered. Strokes, drips, sprays and plops build the body. Colors next to one another optically describe light and depth that transform gestured marks into representation, becoming timelines of process and progression. My sculptures are emblems of nature’s small giants. Most of my sculptures are made from an assemblage of noble metals; rods, tubing, sheets and wire. I weave, build, sew and meld metals together. Like large physical drawings, the metals twist and scribble to create form. My wall installations are reminiscent of huge brooches of jewelry. My labor of love in all my art is to elevate an awareness. With climate change affecting us everyday, we need to serve as guardians to care and preserve our local habitats and their inhabitants.