JACKSON, WY.- Heather James Fine Art presents new paintings by Penelope Gottlieb. The exhibition is on view August 18 – September 30, 2011. Penelope Gottlieb’s latest paintings are a natural evolution from her recent series, “Gone,” in which the artist recreated a series of plants on the ‘confirmed extinction’ list that have no known visual reference by reconstructing them from botanists’ descriptions. With her new body of work, Gottlieb is playing upon the theme of John James Audubon’s commodification of the natural world via his marketing of prints, reflecting the consumption of nature prevalent in the social attitudes of the 19th century. Painting directly over pre-existing Audubon prints, Gottlieb envelops the wildlife in a tightly woven braid of plant leaves, tendrils and tentacles, so that what would normally be part of the creatures’ natural habitat has suddenly turned on t