{"id":331140,"date":"2026-08-27T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331140\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:20:13","slug":"lics-elevated-sightlines-on-canvas-in-bayside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/331140\/","title":{"rendered":"LIC\u2019s elevated sightlines on canvas in Bayside |"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than 15 years, Paul Fabozzi has walked beneath the elevated train lines around Queensboro Plaza with a camera in hand, watching one of the fastest-changing corners of Queens rearrange itself.<\/p>\n

Beginning Sept. 5, the paintings that have come out of those walks go on view in Bayside.<\/p>\n

\u201cLIC Morphology,\u201d a solo exhibition of Fabozzi\u2019s work, runs Sept. 5 through 27 at Garage Art Center, at 26-01 Corporal Kennedy St. in Bayside. An opening reception is set for Sept. 5, from 4 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Fabozzi is a professor of fine arts and chairman of the Department of Art and Design at St. John\u2019s University, and creative director of Moves: Movimenti Creativi, an artist residency in Lucera, Italy.<\/p>\n

The gallery is open by appointment during exhibitions; visits and event RSVPs can be scheduled online at garageartcenter.as.me. More on the artist can be found online at paulfabozzi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show gathers a series of interrelated oil paintings that take Long Island City as a point of departure without ever settling into a picture of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn \u2018LIC Morphology,\u2019 the city becomes both subject and metaphor, a living structure in constant motion,\u201d the Garage Art Center said in a press release.<\/p>\n

Rather than reproducing a specific view, Fabozzi draws on an accumulated archive of photographs and impressions of the neighborhood\u2019s architecture, infrastructure and movement.<\/p>\n

Geometric passages suggest the elevated tracks, surrounding buildings and changing sightlines of today\u2019s Long Island City while remaining open enough to operate as independent visual structures. Overlapping bands and angular fragments build a network of planes, as though several views of the same intersection had been layered onto a single image.<\/p>\n

Color does the spatial work. Saturated reds, greens, yellows and blues overlap and recede to produce depth without conventional perspective.<\/p>\n

The canvases on view are simply titled \u2014 such as \u201cLIC #1a,\u201d \u201cLIC #1c\u201d and \u201cLIC #1d\u201d \u2014 but powerfully show industrial history and architectural energy coexisting in the same pictorial field through oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy 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,\u201d Fabozzi said in a statement provided by Garage Art Center.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garage Art Center also has scheduled an artist talk with Fabozzi, \u201cIn Dialogue with Place: On Process and Perception,\u201d for Sept. 19, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public and recommended for those ages 12 and older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 15 years, Paul Fabozzi has walked beneath the elevated train lines around Queensboro Plaza with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,8687,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-331140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stories","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}