Sandra Gottlieb
New York, NY - United States
Sandra Gottlieb - Fine Artist
Member Since: 01/23/2008
'SEASCAPES' 1996 thru 2006
Seascapes 1996 thru 2006 is a compilation of images photographed over the last ten years along the shoreline of the east coast of the United States, specifically in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York and Palm Beach County, Florida. The series consists of 40 images, numbered as Horizontal 1 thru 20 and Vertical 1 thru 20.
Seascapes is a minimal interpretation of sea and sky, explored through scale, color, and simplicity of image.
The shoreline provides an inexhaustible supply of infinitely variable forms. The sea and clouds combine to create myriad abstract visual elements. With my camera I am able to go directly to the source. I find ready to use what a painter has to create.
Starting from what is complex, it is possible to reach what is simple and timeless.
My pictures are a thin slice of space and time, translating the world into a purely pictorial language of color, shape, and overall composition.
The photographers point of view can sharpen and even alter the perception of an image that is fleeting and transitory.
With a sensibility to the specificity of light, the camera can push the limits of the tension between real and abstract to create a balance of scultural form and natural sensuality.'
“Nocturne” is my fifth series of images relating to my personal connection to the sea. Having lived my life near the shores of the east coast of the United States, the endlessly shifting moods of the sea have proven irresistible to my camera’s lens.
There is circularity in the flow of the water, an unending motion fed by the heat of the sun. An inherent mystery of constancy linked with change and transformation.
In “Nocturne” I have focused on the crumbling rafts of foam at the edge of the shore during the haunting moonlit hours after dark.
'Rockaway Beach' is an ongoing series of seascapes that began in 1998. My unmanipulated photographs are all taken from a singular vantage point overlooking the ocean in Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York. My intention is to reveal the serene and unexpected beauty that exists within tumultuous New York City. The shoreline provides an inexhaustible supply of infinitely variable forms where the sea and sky combine to create myriad abstract visual elements.
'Floral Impressions' consists of 20 images taken during the summer of 2001. All the images again were taken from a singular location. A neighbor's garden filled with a resplendent array of spring and summer flowers proved irresistible. The flowers were permitted to move freely with the wind - catching the early morning light - in and out of focus as the breeze dictated.
My pictures are a thin slice of space and time exlored through scale, color and simplicity of image, translating the world into a purely pictorial language of color, shape and overall composition.
The photographers point of view can sharpen and even alter the perception of an image that is fleeting and transitory. Starting from what is complex, it is possible to reach what is simple and timeless.
With a sensibility to the specificity of light, the camera can push the limits of the tension between real and abstract to create a balance of sculptural form and natural sensuality.
Sandra Gottlieb
