Extinct Botanicals

Gottlieb has had a kind of “Eureka!” moment with this chapter in her evolution as an artist, and the work is among the strongest I’ve seen from any Santa Barbara artist since arriving here in 2001. There’s a devastating clarity of vision and immediacy to the fusion she’s achieved, which combines the decorative, the illustrative, and the figurative in a new, beautiful, and intensely provocative manner.

Charles Donelan,           Independent 2011

Invasive Species

….the layer-upon-layer effect is both in keeping with Gottlieb's overall more-is-more approach to this art, and also relevant to the underlying theme of the destruction of indigenous plant and animal life by the introduction of non-natives (plants, people, industries, cultures, you name it). In a "reworked Audubon" work like "Clerodendrum chinense," bird life is seen in a tangled stranglehold with imp-osed stalks and succubus blossoms.

Josef  Woodard,     Santa Barbara News-Press  2011