Color Vibe
Artist Jane Gottlieb’s Santa Barbara home, like her art, is saturated with color.
Jane Gottlieb; the multihued living room includes Saporiti furniture and a portion of Gottlieb’s Murano glass collection;Brancusi Head, Paris, France, 1989, archival hand-painted Cibachrome print, 30 x 40 in. an outdoor view of Gottlieb’s colorful residence
Artist Jane Gottlieb’s Santa Barbara home, like her art, is saturated with color. “My house reflects my art,” she says. “It makes you happy because color is classically uplifting.” Indeed, color is everywhere—from the walls (adorned with her artwork) to the furniture (colorful pieces designed by Italian manufacturer Saporiti)—and includes her significant collection of multihued glass (primarily Murano). Gottlieb acquired the residence 21 years ago when she relocated from her native Los Angeles, where she had transformed several homes according to her signature color palette.
Her love of vibrant hues was inspired by a visit to the Yucatán when she was 30 years old. “The Mexican color really spoke to me,” says the artist, “and it really changed my art and my perspective on everything.” Originally a painter, Gottlieb began hand painting her own photographs (Cibachromes) in the early 1980s. Her exhibition of color-enhanced car photographs at L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum was up for three years, a true coup, and helped launch her career, which has included international exhibitions and many one-person shows.
The advent of digital photography and Photoshop transformed Gottlieb’s work; now she prints her full-toned digitally enhanced photographs—some taken decades earlier—on aluminum. She currently has 100 pieces of her work on loan in six buildings at UCLA and her work was exhibited last year at UC Santa Barbara’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum. –L.D. Porter
