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This work is a continuation of my series of large steel books. The interplay of positive and negative space, of image and text is important to this work. This steel accordion-book/fence has five 4-foot x 4-foot steel pages which ask , "Can we acknowledge the pain we have caused in the world, even as we struggle with our own?" While nothing can excuse the attack on the World Trade Center or the terrible loss of innocent life, it is not difficult to understand why people would be angry at the U.S. The text in Can We Acknowledge? addresses this aspect of the tragedy.Janet Goldner
This work is a continuation of my series of large steel books. The interplay of positive and negative space, of image and text is important to this work. This steel accordion-book/fence has five 4-foot x 4-foot steel pages which ask , "Can we acknowledge the pain we have caused in the world, even as we struggle with our own?" While nothing can excuse the attack on the World Trade Center or the terrible loss of innocent life, it is not difficult to understand why people would be angry at the U.S. The text in Can We Acknowledge? addresses this aspect of the tragedy.Email:
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My work fuses the tactile, spatial forms of sculpture with elegant, succinct comments on contemporary social issues. The interplay of texture and pattern combines with an off-kilter geometry that gives my work a special immediacy and excitement. My work thrives on small tensions between light and shadow, positive and negative, organic and precise, playful and serious, political and personal. I create my often-poetic steel sculptures using a welding torch as a drawing instrument, cutting images and sometimes text into them. As Vivien Raynor wrote in The New York Times (February 26, 1995), “Janet Goldner is a sculptor with a gift for wielding the blow torch, a way with words, and the will to combine the two.”
Over thirty years as an active artist, I have shown my work in over twenty solo exhibitions, and nearly one hundred group exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as in Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Bosnia, Australia, New Zealand, and Mali. I am the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and artist residencies, including a Fulbright Fellowship and a grant from the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid. My work has been published in many books, journals, magazines, catalogs and news sources. An artist-scholar,I have curated exhibitions, published articles and catalogs, and lectured at conferences, universities, and community venues. I have also conducted sculpture workshops and community art projects in both the United States and Mali.
The evolution of my sculpture traces my enduring exploration of sculptural form, my ongoing relationship with African culture, and my lifelong involvement in political activism. My life experiences have played an integral part in the development of my work, and have allowed my oeuvre to carry on a unique cohesion where themes recur and overlap, appear and disappear, then reappear in altered form.
Categories: Urban, Traditional / Culturally Specific, Storytelling, Sculpture, Public Art, Photography, Nonfiction Writing, Multi-Cultural, Mixed Media, Landscape, Interior, Installation / Site Specific, Fiber / Textile, Fashion / Costume, Environmental, Editing, Drawing, Contemporary / Modern, Conceptual, Artist Books, Activism, Visual Arts, Multi-Discipline, Literary Arts, Film / Video
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