The Telegraph Hill Gallery presents 'Relics and Ruins' Marianne Lettieri and Charles Coates

SAN FRANCISCO - Aug. 3, 2015 - PRLog -- The Telegraph Hill Gallery is pleased to present Bay Area artists Marianne Lettieri and Charles Coates in Relics and Ruins. The exhibit runs from 03 through 31 August 2015 with an opening reception on 07 August from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. The show features Lettieri’s sculptural installations and mixed media assemblage work and Coates’ woodcut prints. Relics and Ruins probes into our historical, collective, and individual past and shared human desire to reconnect and remember.

Lettieri’s work imbues with reference to associated memories. She utilizes discarded cultural detritus and common articles and recontextualizes them into sculptural and assemblage pieces revealing the matter at hand with the materiality of the object. The mixed media constructions and installations rely on spatial relationships and visual metaphors to explore preoccupations of life and our fixation with memory and yearning to remember.

Among Lettieri’s work included in the exhibition are Memory Bank a sculptural installation made with photo fragments, wood tags, antique keys, and strings, Naming Day a christening gown transformed into a quilted sculpture embellished with plastic animals, threads, and enamel, and Wisp a mixed media work incorporating a Victorian picture frame, glass beads, found photos, pinafores, and ink drawing on acrylic sheet.

Lettieri’s work is in the collections of the City of Palo Alto, CA, Oracle Corporation, Redwood City, CA, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA, and the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage, and Construction Santa Fe, NM.

Coates’ gothic cathedral themed woodcut prints are depicted shrouded in scaffolding. Cathedrals are symbols of faith and power that have survived for centuries. The structures endure with intervention and preservation with the grand facade cloaked in temporal framework. The cycle repeats and reflects the human aspiration to establish a connection to the past and to the ideal.

A few of Coates’ work in the show are large format prints of Vision of Isidore in multiple contrasting versions including a series in black ink on white paper and an edition in white ink on white paper, and a triptych titled Valley of the Bones, all of which printed on translucent Japanese handmade paper.

Coates’ work is in the collections of Collections of the Boston Public Library, Boston MA, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, and the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.

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