Marianne Lettieri has show at Little House

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Marianne Lettieri currently has a show at Little House in the Nealon Park area of Menlo Park. The show runs June 17 through July 25.

Little House
800 Middle Ave., Menlo Park, California
(650) 326 0665

For more information on Marianne's upcoming shows, please visit her website.

Marianne Lettieri exhibit

Homage to Hannalore Baron

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Marianne Lettieri has two mixed media pieces in "Under the Influence: works by contemporary collage and assemblage artists and homage to those 20th century artists who inspire them," an exhibition at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Longview, Texas, March 14-April 25, 2009.

A 96-page catalog of the show is available here. The catalog was written by Cecil Touchon, director of the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, who curated the exhibition. Marianne created a tribute to Hannalore Baron who has influenced her artistic development, and a second work more typical of her own style.

Solo show for Marianne Lettieri

Marianne Lettieri has a solo show of new work at The Main Gallery in Redwood City, March 19 to April 20, 2008. The exhibit, called "Outside Inside," shakes up the concepts of freedom and confinement, suggesting that they might be the same. Cages, lanterns and paintings of sky are juxtaposed with familiar objects to create unsettling tension. The viewer will have to question what is outside and what is inside.

"For years I have collected a great inventory of interesting containers to use in my art," Marianne said. "The challenge for me with this series was to work with enclosures that have strong symbolic imagery, but say something unexpected."

The resulting exhibit offers thought provoking and ironic visual metaphor. For example, a red birdcage appears as if it would fly off into the blue canvas behind, if it were not tethered to a chain and barbell. A house shaped sculpture painted with clouds and encased in a wrought iron cloche gives new meaning to the phrase "castle in the sky." These and other pieces in "Outside Inside" reveal what is normally concealed by the placement of objects in such a way that poetic resonance happens.

There will be a reception for the artist on Sunday, March 30 from 4 to 7 p.m. The gallery is located at 1018 Main Street in the historic yellow Victorian cottage. The Main Gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 to 4 and weekends from 10 to 3. For more information, please call the gallery at (650) 701-1018 or visit the gallery's web site at www.themaingallery.org.

Marianne Lettieri featured in new book

Lynne Perrella has a new book called Art-Making, Collections & Obsessions. It features a page about Marianne Lettieri and her assemblage, "Pieces of String Too Small to Use, Valued." The book, which has been released this month online and to book stores nationwide, looks lusciously at the synchronicity between object and artist.

Marianne Lettieri

My Kingdom, 16 x 17 x13

Dovecote for Cornell, 30 x21 x10

Artist’s Statement

I grew up within sight of the missile gantries at Cape Canaveral, Florida during the race to the moon between the US and USSR. Visual juxtapositions, such as rosette spoonbills flying at the rumble of a rocket launch, created for me a lasting appreciation of images that are at once familiar and unsettling. Connecting disparate elements so that we see things in a new way is central to my art. I enjoy collecting and using in my work vintage objects and ephemera that tell stories of who we are how we have lived. Transforming forgotten castoffs and ordinary detritus into meaningful imagery is for me a personal statement of faith.

Biography

Marianne Lettieri received a BFA from University of Florida in 1971 with majors in printmaking, drawing and dance. She worked as a graphic artist and modern dancer prior to a career in creative marketing and communications in the high technology industry of Northern California. She now works full time as an artist in assemblage, collage and mixed media, and conducts art workshops in the Bay Area. She exhibits at The Main Gallery in Redwood City, and is the founder of Arts of the Covenant, a Christian art organization.

News

March 17-April 20, 2008 at The Main Gallery in Redwood City, she will show new works created with cages and lanterns that explore the concepts of confinement and freedom.