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MARIO LAYNE FABRIZIO

Visual Artist • Composer • Percussionist • Filmmaker • Writer

YOU ARE ON A NEW ADVENTURE

"Fabrizio is unrestrained, revealing complex layers of vulnerability tucked within each stroke." — Beverly Aarons, Artists Up Close

Mario Layne Fabrizio creates at the intersection of sound, vision, and spirit—a contemporary alchemist transforming raw materials into breathing consciousness. His work has been presented on stages and walls across the globe: The Whitney Museum, Salzburg Jazz Festival, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Panama Jazz Festival, Birdland, Kunming's International Drum Festival, Seattle Art Museum, and the Kennedy Center.

London Jazz News describes him as "ferocious but subtle," while Steve Smith of On The Record notes his "assurance, charisma and infectious enthusiasm." His paintings have been called "surreal, trippy dreamscapes" by Seattle Met, and his compositions have earned recognition from The New York Times, AllMusic, and FranceMusique.

Mario has shared the stage with luminaries including Cecil McBee, Claudio Roditi, Nilson Matta, Santi DeBriano, Joe Morris, Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko, Jason Palmer, Oran Etkin, Noah Preminger, and Volker Goetze. He's premiered works including The Black Clown at American Repertory Theatre, Arturo O'Farrill's Little Tiny Walls, and showcased in Jason Moran's STAGED exhibition.

His co-led ensemble TROPOS with Phillip Golub continues to evolve the boundaries of improvised music, while new releases from THE STAR GONDOLA and KOSTOCHKI are magical acts on the horizon.

Mario's artistry has been supported by YoungArts, MassMOCA, Assets for Artists, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Mass Cultural Council, San Francisco EBCP, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. His works have been commissioned by National Sawdust, MadArt, and Seattle Art Museum.

A 2018 graduate of Boston's New England Conservatory (BA in Jazz Studies), he studied wuth Jabali Billy Hart, Cecil McBee, Joe Morris, Vijay Iyer (Harvard), and Jason Moran. His foundation was laid through New Jersey's Jazz House Kids, learning from Melissa Walker and Christian McBride's powerful program.

His published poetry appears in Art and Letters, and he has been featured at Boston's Intercollegiate Poetry Festival and Grolier Books. In-depth interviews about his practice can be found in JazzTimes, Earshot, Seattle Refined, and KOMO News, where he was named Artist of the Week.

Artistic Philosophy

"My work is a sort of alchemy—I am creating works that breathe and possess consciousness."

For Mario, creation is ritual. Each painting unfolds like a diary entry or tarot reading, inviting viewers to wander and wonder, to lead life with intuition. Through paintings, sculptures, moving images, and music, he crafts multimedia fairy tales that are narratives that shift and dance as life unfolds, alive with their own consciousness.

His process mirrors the additive nature of existence itself: paint accumulates, never subtracted, just as we cannot return to the past. Each work reveals itself through gravity and grace, as if it had always existed, waiting to be discovered like a secret whispered by the wind.

Dreams, Mario believes, are a forgotten language in modern society—a world of truths so personal they defy direct translation, yet with training, they host absolute truth. His work bridges this realm with the awake and tangible, making visible what lives in the spaces between consciousness and sleep.

Jazz—with its history of thought leaders, its tradition of innovation, its boundless improvisation and understanding of freedom—pulses at the heart of his practice. The geniuses who invented and pushed the music into avant-garde realms taught him to embrace spontaneity, listen intensely, trust the moment, and find beauty in the unplanned. Jazz is rebellion against rigidity, a living art form mirroring the unpredictability of existence.

Like musical improvisation, his works are never fixed. They evolve, revealing new meanings and perspectives, as if alive.

Training as a percussionist gave Mario the tools to infuse his paintings with movement, rhythm, and timing. The physicality of drumming—its dance, its demand for presence, precision, and instinctive connection to pulse—translates directly to his approach with color, texture, and composition. Just as silence is vital in music, he uses space and gravity to create tension and release, a sensual guide for the viewer's eye.

His works invite play: I SPY hidden within layers, figures emerging from abstraction, words woven into texture. Dimensionality shifts with perspective where there are infinite ways to look, and infinite beauty to discover.

Music is sacred. It has taught Mario to cherish the fleeting, to find beauty in what cannot be held, to allow things to evolve and be free. His works are layered with hidden depths and multiple dimensions, inviting viewers to return again and again, each visit a treasure hunt yielding new revelations.

Magic, mystery, and adventure form the cornerstones of Mario's life and art. They remind us that creation is innate desire—a leap into the unknown, a journey into the jungle of mystery. His works conjure magic, spark joy, and forge soul connections—what Bowie called "Soul Love." They challenge antiquated systems, open hearts, and leave room for mischief along the way.

Ultimately, Mario's work celebrates creation itself: a reminder that we are magic, that we are free, that we possess the power to transform the world through beauty.

Life is too brief not to be lived in wonder.

Let us go on adventures together, for the creation of something new is the ultimate act of beauty and freedom.

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