We See Not Only with our Eyes

Three Artists
​Bring Their Work to the Coastal Gallery 
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Lissa Starnes, Painter
Guy Cohen, Sculptor
Marlene Mandelartz, Photographer

​November 13 to December 7, 2025

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Marlene Mandelartz-Cohen

Marlene Mandelartz-Cohen's interest in photography goes back to 1976 when living in Paris. Life in the French capital, and setting up her own darkroom, provided great opportunities to develop her creativity. 

Marlene rediscovered her passion for photography in 2014 in the process of adapting to the digital environment and taking classes at Canada College, Skyline College, and Foothill College.

Marlene is Influenced by the Duesseldorfer Photoschule
created by Hilla and Bernd Becher, “Die Neue Deutsche Objektivitaet” 

Passionate about illustrating and showing the beauty and conditions which surround us, Marlene shares her work as a member of the
Sequoia Art Group, and the Palo Alto Camera Club. She currently exhibits
throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as well as on social networks.

You can see her images at  
marlene-mandelartz-cohen.squarespace.com

Guy Cohen

Lissa Starnes

Lissa Starnes - Information from Beyond
San Francisco Bay Area artist Lissa Starnes received her BFA from the Academy of Art University. Lissa studied with notable Bay Area artists - Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira, Howard Brodie, and Thomas Marsh.

Mystic Portals & Energy Vortexes
Our ancient ancestors built temples, pyramids, and megaliths to conduct electrical generators where Earth’s natural energy lines meet and create highly charged vortexes of electromagnetic frequency. These portal centers help re-energize the body, helping people feel better using the electromagnetic grid, harnessing Earth’s vibrations. Still today, people seek to find the hot spots on the planet that are highly energetic. Utilizing their bodies as magnets to that environment, they can experience time warps and thinning veils into alternate dimensions.

Antelope Canyon by Marlene Mandelartz-Cohen

We See Not Only with our Eyes

Guy Clement Cohen

Guy Clement Cohen says he can see the whole universe in each piece. I enter in a relationship with each piece and through distinct phases we explore together the depth and quality and the wholeness of our relationship.

I select the tools and materials intuitively, and we establish a relationship and common attraction.
My current work is inspired by the mystic tradition. In each sculpture I reveal elements of the creation and oneness and bring to my art the multicultural and multinational experience to which I have been exposed all my life. I have the impression that my own soul merges with the sculpture i am carving and becomes a greater self. I am able to remove all undesirable thoughts and tendencies and project into my sculptures a dimension of my senses and feelings in a very organic way that imbues my art with wisdom,  wholeness,  peace and fulfillment.

Lissa Starnes

Lissa Starnes

Guy by Marlene Mandelartz-Cohen

Lissa's paintings of megaliths and landscapes are not from places she physically visited, but came to her effortlessly, transmuted.
​Lissa says, "Having spent a month in the jungle studying the Mayans and their pyramids in 1986, I’ve always been drawn to a deeper knowledge of their ancient civilizations' attunement with mathematics and cosmology. "

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"The site at Palenque was my main archeological focus, where many of the Mayans told stories of summoning the alien spaceships.  They told stories handed down from Pakal’s ancestors that the beings from the other world were partly their relatives and helped to build the pyramids, and brought knowledge from the sky.
These ancient power plants, pyramids, and energy vortexes are my inspiration for this series of Mystic Portals."