Public Art
2015 Two sculptures were installed at corporate offices, San Jose, CA
2014 Davis Transmedia Art Walk Benches:
"Dog Day" bench by Rene Martucci was chosen along with art work by 4 other artists for public art benches in the Davis Transmedia art walk. Davis is the first in the Nation to offer this cutting edge project. Each art work on the tour has an embedded RFID computer chip with interactive features.
http://davisartwalk.com/?attachment_id=237
2011
“The Story Grove”
A community mural by artists Juli Ann Blanco, Rene Martucci, and the
students at Marguerite Montgomery elementary., Davis CA . This school-based art education program, ArtMix, was made possible by YoloArts with support from the Yocha Dehe Community Fund, and the teachers, parents and staff of Marguerite Elementary School.
2010 Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch Library art installations.
Two sculptures are installed at the newly remodeled Davis Library. The "Discovery and Knowledge" bench is a memorial to Joan Suico. The second sculpture is "Tower of Books"
2009
“The Stories We Share”. school wide mural project, Davis, CA
Martucci created a tile mural with elementary students at Marguerite Montgomery. The ceramic elements reflect their social studies topics. Martucci designed a large ceramic mural and class room lessons that connected to the social studies curriculum. This project was installed in June 2008. In 2008 -2009, She was again requested to work with the students to design a mural and create original tiles for installation on columns at the front office.
2008
“The Growing Garden” school wide mural project, Davis, CA
Art and Story Telling school community project
Student made ceramic tiles reflect their social studies topics. Martucci was asked to create the projects by the Yolo County Art Council where she had been teaching students in Woodland and Davis. She designed a large ceramic mural that features original ceramic work by Montgomery Elementary students from kindergarten through 6th grade.
2007
PRIVATE COMMISSION OF LIFE SIZED WILD BOAR SCULPTURE
LAFAYETTE, CA
2006
PRIVATE COMMISSION OF LIFE SIZED LEOPARD SCULPTURE
Life size purple ceramic leopard for wall by sculpture garden pool area, Napa CA
2005 Judy Chicago Kitty City Sculpture Project
A recent project has been working with feminist artist Judy Chicago. Martucci worked on a sculpture project with Chicago and John Natsoulas.Martucci sculpted eight cat portraits from Chicago’s book Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours. Judy Chicago china painted the final sculptures. The John Natsoulas Gallery unveiled the sculptures in at the Chicago SOFA.
2005 Sculptural Objects and Functional Art show.
The project inspired Martucci to continue to explore cat imagery. solo show "The Cat Aesthetic" in March featuring cat imagery.
2005
JUDY CHICAGO COLLABORATION
Collaborative project to create cats featured in Chicago’s recent book. The Sculptures were to be featured at SOFA CHICAGO. During this project, Martucci worked with Judy Chicago to create eight cat sculptures from Chicago’s book Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours. Martucci sculpted the cats and Judy china paint them.
2004-2005
UC DAVIS VET SCHOOL, COMPANION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH
Martucci designed and created two dog sculptures for the Center for Companion Animal Health. A statue of the dog “Angel”, who had been a patient at the vet school, was the focus of the piece. Angel’s owner donated money to build “Angel’s Courtyard ” for the new Companion Center for Animal Health.
1997 Staglin Family Vineyard
Two sculptures installed at the entrance of the Staglin Family Vineyard in Rutherford, a winery noted for it's extensive fine art collection.
René Martucci