Janet Goldner is an artist whose work explores culture, identity and social justice. She works in various media: sculpture, photography, video, installation and writing.

Horses run, dogs sleep, and birds soar in the sky, all the while our environment is ever changing.

My current body of work explores nostalgia for a forgotten time period through the use of photographs, blending personal and found items.

I make small to large scale ephemeral soft sculptures and installations out of paint that explore the space where binaries exist simultaneously in the same being.

I am continually fascinated by the both the differences and similarities of species and look for parallels often combining elements in the creation of a new hybrid. I look for unexpected combinations as a way to suggest new possibilities.

My work comprises a visual diary, where each instant is isolated as a fragment of a larger and often unresolved narrative. My process seeks to explore those instances when we feel as if we are mere observers to our own circumstance.

Photography

My new work has been a great deal of focus on human beings connection to living and nonliving things in our universe. The captured series examines how a technology is used to create identity and mind control.

Through video, animation, sound, printmaking and installation I explore the residue of the western world’s worship of progress.

My paintings and work on paper are playful and abstract; my installations are satirical and sometimes surrealistic.

These photographs are of surfaces changed by weather, paint, rust and algae, to complex, organic paintings. They are about rebirth; about the possibility of beauty in destruction.

My work deals with contemporary political issues such as consumerism, globalization and international power relations through an examination of visual symbolic language such as corporate logos, national flags, and product packaging.

I typically create layered stencils and linoleum cuts that I often paste in the street.

I integrate painting, found objects, text, dance and sound to create installations that link my personal history to lesser-known history; I am currently working on a project about maids in the United States as I was a maid as an art student

Sculpture & installation: The work ranges from exploring psychic & architectural space of clothing to coaxing out the sculptural qualities inherent in banal every day materials.

Realms of fascination are constant mind wonderings

I want to make the undervalued, unseen culture of “women’s work” visible.