Making Space is an ongoing online exhibition curated by Sarah Haviland and Eileen Hoffman of the NY Artists Circle. Sculpture depends on space. As a visual artform that exists in three dimensions, it shares our world. It has tactile presence and can be created from a huge variety of materials. And as a physical, dimensional artform, sculpture is also dynamic. …
Sculpture
Women in the Arts: Breaking New Ground
Triangles have been part of my vocabulary for many years and appear frequently in my sculptures. Triangles, circles, squares are primary shapes like primary colors: red, yellow, blue. Structurally, triangles are the strongest shape. Any weight placed on them is evenly distributed between all three sides.Triangles are often associated with feminine energy. The number 3 is a very mystical and spiritual number featured in …
Walls and Borders
Falling Fences is a new site specific installation about my ongoing concern with migration and borders. It is composed of barbed wire and photographs from my research trip to the US/Mexican border in Texas. The installation shows the endless tangled barriers to crossing the border, an imaginary line that has real consequences, separating people and cultures.
Don’t Shut Up 2021
-Isms, 39 inches x 24 inches x 24 inches, steel, 1993 Through interruptions, censure, violence and threatening behavior — both in person and online — women are silenced every day. Don’t Shut Up presents the work of 47 woman-identifying artists from across the US and Canada who are working to challenge and disrupt the status quo through their ongoing artistic …
Beyond the Ground and the Sky
Meandering Border (Rio Grande) 1, Steel, 20″ x 30″ The sculptures in the show are positive and negative drawing in space about migration, travel and movement. Migration is a continuing theme in my work. Meandering Border (Rio Grande)1 was inspired by my research trip to the US/Mexican border in Texas. The line of the border map is cut into rusty steel using …
No Vacancy: Sculptors Guild Summer Exhibition
Us, Them We, Steel, 4′ x 3′ x 3′ 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 …
Segou’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 Africa and elsewhere. The mission …
Glyphs
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 various media: steel sculpture, photography, …
Building
“Building offers a look at how artists grapple with the structure of structures. The word “building” is inherently both the action of creating and the object of its creation. We begin with nothing, design by pushing and pulling, adding and subtracting, while amassing the elements to create the structure until we have an object that literally has to stand. Janet …
i found god in myself…
i found god in myself is a multimedia and multigallery exhibition celebrating the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking choreopoem, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. Since its debut performance in 1974 just outside Berkeley, California, at a bar named the Bacchanal, Shange’s work has captivated, provoked, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the world. …