June 6, 2026 - August 18, 2026

Power Play: Sculpture and Photography

The Garage Art Center, 26-01 Corporal Kennedy St, Bayside, NY 11360

“Donnelly Marks is a New York City–based sculptor and photographer whose work explores the flow of consciousness through transience, imperfection, and material transformation. Guided by intuition and chance, Marks creates new visual narratives from found materials—crushed cardboard, concrete, and metal—allowing spontaneous connections to shape the creative process.”

“This exhibition celebrates the power of play — not as escape, but as liberation. The selected sculptures emerge from consistent, daily practice. Using materials at hand, these ephemeral constructions of plastic, cardboard, metal, and paint resist pretension, perfection, and preciousness. Each piece bears the imprint of the hand. Textures are rough-hewn, the scale intimate, the feeling expansive — even sacred. Through photography and altered perceptions of scale, the sculptures are transfigured: the small becomes monumental, abstraction crystallizes into metaphor, warrior-like figures arise, and casual constructions transform into symbols of power, survival, and strength.”

“Give me scraps, scissors, and a bit of paint — throw in the spirit of play, and something magical happens. The spiritual emerges from the essence of play.”