JOY RIDES

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• Photographer
  Jane Gottlieb, United States
• Studio
  Jane Gottlieb
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• Website
  http://janegottlieb.com

JANE GOTTLIEB - "JOY RIDES"

As a native of Los Angeles I grew up having
a love affair with the ever-present automobile. Cruising the streets I captured images that reflect my idyllic vision and romantic memories of a long lost Los Angeles.

I have spent my life being an artist. I began as
a painter and evolved into a photographer. For the last 25 years I have been combining mediums, hand-painting on Cibachrome color prints and enhancing with photoshop.

The â??Joy Ridesâ?? are symbols of the freedom that
made Los Angeles such a special place to grow
up in 50 years ago. Intensifying the colors creates an unreal world that reflects a lost, but not forgotten Los Angeles.

• Biography
  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 photographic print.. For the past 25 years I have been scanning my one-of-a-kind hand-painted prints and my library of 35mm Kodachrome slides taken over my lifetime, & paint, collage & enhance them with Photoshop.
• Awards
  Many exhibitions over the last 30 years as a fine art photographer, some awards & am proud to announce that I have just installed 65 large artworks at UCLA, filling the Law Library & a floor at the Anderson School of Business, on loan for 10 years! I produce archival museum quality chromogenic prints, archival glossy canvas artworks, and my favorite new digital medium: archival printing on aluminum. My art has been shown worldwide in many solo exhibitions including: Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; 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, Santa Barbara, CA. I have been included in countless group exhibits and Art Fairs around the world over the last 30 years, and collected by museums, foundations, corporations and individuals worldwide. Numerous magazine articles, magazine and book covers, two museum exhibition catalogues and two books have been published of my art, Garden Tales and Car Tales. Recently I have had the honor of being asked to install a total of over 200 artworks in many wonderful public spaces on exhibit forever: In five buildings at UCLA and three buildings at UCSB. Recently I had a 4 month exhibition entitles “Jane Gottlieb Photographs France” at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at UCSB!!