From explosive color palettes to whimsical scenery, photographer Jane Gottlieb has captured the skill of color balancing. Gottlieb takes everyday images and enhances them into striking extraterrestrial scenes. With vivid colors as her sole inspiration, Jane Gottlieb has launched her passion into a career. 

Life

Gottlieb is a native Californian, born in Los Angeles in 1946, art had already infiltrated the bright mind of young Jane. From street art to the LACMA, Gottlieb’s inspiration draws from a very early influence of bright and fanciful pieces. Gottlieb’s passion for art and its history continued to flourish as she enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley. However, after two years at Berkeley, Gottlieb went out of state and enrolled at the University of Syracuse for

her junior year. Although a new university, Gottlieb did not see fit and once again transferred to UCLA to graduate where she achieved a Bachelor’s Degree in Painting and Art History. From there she finished her education at the School of Visual Arts in New York with a major in Graphic Design.

Art and its livelihood had completely immersed Gottlieb from the start, sparking imaginative pieces and a new form of expression. As soon as she was out of college, Jane Gottlieb began her work. At first, she would photograph landscapes and paint them with vivid and influential colors. However, as technology advanced, she has now resorted to tools such as Photoshop in order to render the images into unimaginable realities. Modernized technology has enabled Gottlieb to print and showcase her works all over the world, which have become a massive success. Gottlieb works full-time as a full-time art photographer and continues to produce her eye-catching works in Santa Barbara, California, where a multitude of her art has been put on display.

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"Paris Pyramid at Dusk"

Legacy

Gottlieb continues to influence young artists and expressionists with her mischievous and unconventional craft. With colors protruding from every corner of the paper, the unexpected curvatures and gradients could catch the eye of any passerby willing to experience her work. Gottlieb’s fine art can be seen at prominent galleries such as L’Image Gallery in Rome, Italy, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, UCLA, Butler Institute of American Art, Palos Verdes Art Center, Dememga Gallery, Basel, Switzerland. Around the world, Gottlieb has influenced the production of contemporary fine art, which has modernized and impacted a new form of expressional art.

Additionally, Gottlieb has transformed her home in Santa Barbara into an eccentric blast of color, where color blocking consumes every nook and cranny. Her home, which was originally brown and beige, has seemingly been brought back to life with refreshing and idiosyncratic colors. As of now, Gottlieb continues to pursue her art, bringing new perspectives to regular photographs and unhinging the normalcies of landscape photography. 

Quote

“I don’t understand why people aren’t braver with color. It doesn’t really take courage, color is my addiction. It makes everything feel better.” – Jane Gottlieb