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Janet Goldner participated in this group exhibition in Beacon, NY.
Janet Goldner’s Interesting Times were included in the SculptureNow 2018 exhibition at The Mount in Lenox, MA, The 12 vinyl banners are 25′ x 4′. Interesting Times was made in 2013 around the time of the Arab Spring and anti-austerity movements in the US and Europe. Each of the 12 banners have the name of the country, images of the protests, and two images of cultural sites in those places. The banners include Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Syria, Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Turkey, Brazil, Occupy and Wisconsin.
This exhibition of contemporary and traditional bogolan from Mali revolves around the contemporary bogolan paintings of the Groupe Bogolan Kasobane and the ancient origins of the ancestral Malian technique as women’s work. The exhibition also includes works by other artists who have been influenced by and collaborated with the Groupe. The show will introduce the Spanish public to the contemporary works of this group of pioneers in Mali who use this traditional technique to make works of contemporary art. It is in memory of Kandioura Coulibaly.
The participating artists are: Kandioura Coulibaly, Kletigui Dembele, Boubacar Doumbia, Souleymane Goro, Baba Fallo Keita and Nené Thiam of the Groupe Bobolan Kasobane. Included friends and collaborators are: Ladji Barry, Irene López de Castro, Fatoumata Tioye Coulibaly, John Damanti, Tiecoura N’Daou, Senou Fofana, Janet Goldner, and Annick Turner.
Sympathetic Magic delves into the numinous and explores how different artists come to terms with the unseen through works that explore the bridge between the physical world and an invisible universe of memory and mystery. Curated by Elisa Decker.
Mara Alper, Desirée Alvarez, Jermaine Amuquandoh, Susan Austad, SoHyun Bae, Andrea Cohen, Elisa Decker, Mary DeVincentis, Gwen Fabricant, Mary Frank, Ana Garcès Kiley, France Garrido, Janet Goldner, Nancy Goldring, Ruth Hardinger, Erica Harris, Aristedes Klafke,Pavel Kraus, Henrietta Mantooth, Brad Melamed, William A. Mills, Elaine Norman, Isabel De Obaldía, Chris Piazza, Kesler Pierre, Olga Spiegel, Sylvain & Ghyslaine Staëlens, Renée Stout, Marianne Weil, Tamara Wyndham, Charles Yuen
A group of 25 diverse women artists were invited to create art about present conditions of DISILLUSIONMENT, whether personal, global, cultural, political or societal – addressing issues of deception, falseness, unfaithfulness, betrayal and treachery – with reference to wearing, inhabiting, being veiled, clothed, draped, revealed, exposed or wrapped in disillusion.
Tomie Arai * Audrey Anastasi * Kabuya Bowens * Annex Burgos * Cybil Charlier * Maria Dominguez * Sandra Fernandez * Janet Goldner * Ana Golici * Marina Gutierrez * Valerie Hammond * Janet Henry * Robin Holder * Rodriguez Calero * Martha Jackson Jarvis Charlotte Ka * Olivia Beens Lynn Linnemeier * Carla Lobmier * Shervone Neckles * Quimetta Perle * Nora Rodriguez-Vallés * Miriam Schaer * Mary Ting * Nitza Tufiño
Goldner has been teaching sculpture at Borough of Manhattan Community College. She participated in the Faculty Show.
See, 8 inches x 12 inches x 1 inch, Concrete, Steel
Goldner opened her new, bigger studio in Brooklyn. She presented her new steel and concrete sculpture made during her October artist fellowship at Vermont Studio Center.
Timbuktu, Dunes along the Niger River
Janet Goldner’s slide lecture focused on the UNESCO World Heritage sites in Djenné, Gao, Timbuktu, and Dogon to look at Mali’s rich history.
In 2012, an ongoing political crisis erupted in Mali. This presentation discusses some consequences of the crisis and how Mali’s cultural heritage is important to world culture. Malian culture holds the keys to the resolution of this conflict and the future of Malian democracy. This is especially important since solutions are being imposed by an international community that is not mindful of the rich cultural context and the interconnected histories of the peoples of the region.
Vermont Studio Center Studio, 2017
We are pleased to announce Janet’s fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center for the month of October.
ZigZags, 2017
The Sculptors Guild Celebrating 80 exhibition toured to Governors Island. The show celebrates the 80th year (1937 – 2017) as one of the oldest artist run nonprofit organizations in NY.
“Each sculpture embodies a different vision of the world, of the past, present, and future. Some of the sculptures are whimsical: others touch on the tragic. The sculptors present a span of human emotions as wide as the range of their materials, shaped by the mind as much as by the hand. “ John Yau, curator
Sunday is indeed the day for weddings in Bamako. They are all over town. One Sunday I happened upon this fruit seller with this fabulous necklace on her way to a wedding.
Goldner’s photograph, Fruit Seller on Her Way to a Wedding, was included in the annual Kentler Benefit.
College Art Association Poster Session:
Kawral was a response to the crisis that erupted in Mali in 2012. This artist residency and resulting exhibition and catalogue are important because they serve as a model for the role that artistic production and culture can play in the life of a nation. Yet, projects such as this are rare.
KAWRAL united 25 professional visual artists from throughout Mali to work on the themes Reconciliation, Peace and Social Cohesion in Mopti in March, 2014. With their analysis and creativity the artists brought their contribution to Mali’s recovery, extending the influence of the artistic and cultural life of Mali through the creation of original works of art.