Posts by Janet Goldner
No Vacancy: Sculptors Guild Summer Exhibition
Us, Them We, Steel, 4′ x 3′ x 3′ At the intersection of 6th Avenue and 44th Street, 45 sculptors occupied and transformed a magnificent commercial space. Retail may be struggling but art is asserting the return of New York City as we emerge from a pandemic, experience the global environmental crisis and facing a…
Read MoreSmall Works Show
Seventy-six gallery artists present artwork using 10” x 20” canvases in The Small Works Show. The resulting paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and collages highlight Carter Burden Gallery artists’ diverse strengths.
Read MoreSegou’Art 2021
I was in Mali in February and March to exhibit my welded steel book sculptures at Segou’Art. Segou’Art I Festival on the Niger is a contemporary art fair on the banks of the Niger River. It brings together artists, gallerists, collectors, art lovers and art critics around the works of young emerging talents and established artists from…
Read MorePuffin Foundation’s online exhibition
A New President in 2021, my recent work is included in the Puffin Cultural Forum’s online exhibition. The exhibition is part of the Puffin Foundation’s project on Election 2020. https://www.puffinculturalforum.org/the-election-2020/ The Right to Vote is a fundamental right guaranteed by the US Constitution to every single American. It is a right that has…
Read MoreWorks of Resistance, Resilience: Notions of Home and Borders
My sculpture, Can We Heal, is included as a section heading in the new issue of About Place Journal, Works of Resistance, Resilience. Edited by Jacqueline Johnson, the issue includes art, poetry, fiction and more by 83 writers and artists from around the world. The Journal is available online: https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/works-of-resistance-resilience/notions-of-home-and-borders/
Read MoreGlyphs
Carter Burden Gallery presents a new online exclusive exhibition. The exhibition can be seen on Carter Burden’s website and Artsy.net. Master welder, Janet Goldner presents free standing and wall mounted steel sculptures in Glyphs her second exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery. While this exhibition highlights her steel sculptures, her work explores culture, identity and social justice in…
Read MoreThe USPS Art Project
Janet Goldner & Nancy Andell, Friendship Overland, Overseas, Gouache, Pastel, Mixed Media on Paper, 8″ x 10″ x 1″ This collaborative project is to support the United States Postal Service during the COVID-19 crisis that helps artists connect. Artists choose a collaboration partner and each begins an artwork. We sent them to each other by mail…
Read MoreDrive By
In an effort to “flatten the curve” of fine art installation closures, activist muralist Janet Braun-Reintz and her son comedian Dave Reintz created Drive By Art Gallery by converting the outdoor coming attraction poster boxes into 12 installation boxes featuring images of art works relating to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreYou Will Know Me: Migration Stories
Janet participated in You Will Know Me, a group exhibition curated by Tara Sabharwal in response to the 2016 US elections. The exhibition featuring works by artists from all over the globe.
Read MoreNew York Artist, Janet Goldner Receives Fulbright Specialist Grant to Japan
Goldner presented a three week workshop for visual art students at Kyoto Seika University. Inspired by a process originated by the renowned feminist art critic, Arlene Raven, participants are guided to examine the reasons and context of their artistic production in order to deepen their understanding of their work and learn how to present their…
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