Featured Artists

Susan J. Gottlieb

Give a brief description of your upcoming show. And what might have inspired it.

Stunned by the beauty of this grand land. HEREreflects colors, lights, and textures of The United States of America.

Local and broader domestic landscapes were inspired by multiple cross-country drives. these paintings are a response to the immediate sense of impact the landscape had on this artist.

Capturing the essentials in color-block studies, photos and writings, I returned home to ultimately ponder the memories that held fast in my mind’s eye. These visions, most potent, had to be painted.

How have you expanded existing themes/ideas for which you are best known/or if this body of work is a great deviation from your norm, what inspired this new approach?

The title of this exhibit – HERE – is the most important point for anyone who has followed my work these several decades. The world has been my school. I am known for painting or being inspired by THERE, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Tunisia, Italy, India, Greece, to name just a few places I have studied on my solo adventures.

I have never done a body of work on HERE, the USA. This is the first large exploration of the colors we call home. Clearly, I have only begun.

Stylistically and/or technically, what do you hope collectors notice in your new work?…

Subject matter and experience determine whether my paintings are representative, abstract, or non-objective. My work thusly, is always reinventing itself as I have new adventures in the world, that is my school. But, what is consistent is that I am an Expressionist. My paintings reflect ideas and encounters.

I shifted to canvas (usually preferring paper) for the major pieces of this series, to bring the experience of these landscapes up close and personal. Using heavy collage and paper elements, that link to the specific experience or place, I literally built my landscapes. Creating rough mountain edges,waves of sand, and spattered land my hope is to bring the experience back to me. I paint the remembered sensation.