Today we’d like to introduce you to Jane Gottlieb.
Hi Jane, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I have been expressing my joy of art with paint, shapes and colors since I was very young. I started as a painter, evolved into a photographer, and eventually began hand-painting on my Cibachrome prints over 35 years ago. Before Photoshop I found a way to express a new magical reality with the vivid, saturated and unrealistic colors I painted into each individual photographic print.
For the past 30 years, I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome color transparencies taken over the last 45 years. I love to paint, combine and enhance them with Photoshop, creating my own idyllic world!
My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Colarinda Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal;
MAD Gallery, Milan, Italy; Demenga Gallery, Paris, France & Basel, Switzerland;
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Laguna Art Museum, CA;
Petersen Automotive Museum, LA, CA; LA County Natural History Museum, CA;
Monterey Museum of Art, CA; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, NY; L’Image Gallery, Rome, Italy; Louis Stern Gallery, West Hollywood, CA; Wall Space Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA.
I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs around the world over the last 30 years. My art has been published in many magazines, book and magazine covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books: Garden Tales and Car Tales.
Over the last 10 years I have had the honor to install my art in many wonderful public spaces. I have installed more than 100 large artworks in five buildings at UCLA including a 5’x10’ commission!
In 2014, I installed 20 new very large artworks printed on aluminum at the UCSB Gervirtz Graduate School of Education.
In 2015, I created the First Vertical Art Gallery at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health: I got a drab eight-story stairway freshly painted bright white, it had good lighting and I filled it with eight large artworks. This is about encouraging people to make a healthy choice and use the stairs instead of the elevators and of course, being drawn into the stairwell by my exciting art exhibit!
In 2017, I installed another 15 artworks in the UCSB English Dept building.
In 2017 I had an 6 month inaugural solo exhibit at a new wonderful gallery at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden entitled “Jane Gottlieb Fantasy Gardens”.
In 2018, I had a four months exhibition entitled “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France” at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum!
I just finished at 15’ x 15’ commission for the UCSB Library titled “Check It Out”!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
There were many disappointing times & many fabulous times. Lots of times I thought I was going to break out and be discovered and it didn’t happen! However I have had many dreams come true & am a happy fulfilled artist.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
What has set me apart from other photo-based artists is my vivid colors, altered perspective and changing common points of view, are unique and intriguing: aspects of my art. I welcome the viewer to a contemporary Wonderland with strong theatrical effects classic compositions and enhanced with my trademark saturated colors!! An artist all my life, I have been creating artworks with a lifetime collection of photographs I have taken traveling all over the world and the magic of photoshop. My art has been exhibited in galleries and museums all across the US, Asia and Europe, featured in numerous magazines and books, and displayed in many international art expos. My artworks are in many museums, public and private collections.
Before we let you go, we’ve got to ask if you have any advice for those who are just starting out?
Do your art every day and keep working! Not everything can be a home run or a masterpiece but it’s all important for your artistic journey of self-discovery and joy!
Pricing:
- My art prices start at $1000 & go up to $10,000
Contact Info:
- Website: www.janegottlieb.com
- Instagram: jane_gottlieb
- Facebook: Jane Gottlieb
- Youtube: Jane Gottlieb
