De Lellis is stitching together biographies, lost dreams, found meaning, memorials, and a dark yet illuminative magic in their work
Riot Material
There are those, however, who get derailed on the journey to normative adult relationships. While they are often the target of passing gapes and psychological rubbernecking, De Lellis erects a roadside attraction for them
Allison de Fren
a debt to celebrity-obsessed daytime television brought the fusion of trashy and glam to its peak
Three Weeks
a particularly unsettling performance piece by De Lellis—which made one pretty puzzled woman get down on the floor and stare at it upside down
Artillery
eccentric adult puppetry that oscillates between adorable, abject, campy, and earnest
New Urbanite
Technology meets traditional storytelling to great effect […] De Lellis is an engaging performer who delivers the story with deceptive nonchalance
Watermark
this person is a walking work of art
Patrick Bristow
Ambivalence hangs over the exhibition: a fascination and revulsion, attraction and denunciation, a buying in and buying out
The Scar Of Visibility:
Medical Performances And Contemporary Art
While most would gasp in horror or laugh at the tragic story, Marsian finds the humanity in her gruesome story and embraces the shame monster that lives inside all of us
Feast of Fun Podcast
light years away from the child-oriented Muppets universe that Jim Henson introduced
Calgary Herald
making the ridiculous insane in the best sense
The Weekly Dig
character switches with a spin of the high heel
Archikulture Digest
it was intensely satisfying to encounter the work of Marsian DeLellis, an artist who […] defies categorization
Fabrik
unflinchingly independent vision
Riting
The piece, which questions on a cosmic level our artificial divide between the animate and the inanimate, has the appealing, droll humor and structural unity of a David Sedaris story
LA Weekly
colorful, elaborate, nightmarish
The Scotsman
Demented, touching, and inherently strange
Flavorpill
a crazy hall of mirrors, flashing bits of a story from multiple angles[…] held together by a strong idiosyncratic personal aesthetic. And lots of fake fur
Puppetry International
surreal juxtapositions of materials and images in their soulful and viscerally hybridized works
LA Weekly
hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality
Kate Bornstein
you’re doubtlessly in for a treat
89.9FM WUCF
you’re in for something inspired[…] high-drag puppetry
City Paper
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery brightens up considerably as Marsian De Lellis sweeps in with an outfit adorned with decayed dolls
Los Angeles Times – HS Insider
delightful puppetry
The Boston Herald
