"Shores and Doors" at Carpinteria Arts Center
"Some of the stronger pieces in the show find fresh ways to address time-honored traditions, including the conventional landscape and seascape paintings practice so ever-popular in Santa Barbara art studios, plein air sites and touris-geared galleries. Take for example, the painting by Birgitte Ibsen called "Fishing in Yemen," which despite its specific reference, greets the eye as a non-representational and rhythmic series of paint smears conspiring towards a sensuous, all-over atmospheric effect." --Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News-Press, August 23, 2013