The Paulus Hook Park exhibition is the 2nd venue in the Sculptors Guild show. The title of the show, “5.7” references the 5.7 linear feet of archival material preserved at the Smithsonian, a physical measure of the Guild’s enduring legacy and contributions to American sculpture. Janet’s welded steel sculpture, Circle (Bead Suite) is on view 24/7 through March, 2026. 

Presented by the Sculptors Guild, the title of the show, “5.7” references the 5.7 linear feet of archival material preserved at the Smithsonian, a physical measure of the Guild’s enduring legacy and contributions to American sculpture.  Janet began her artistic practice as a fiber artist. While in college, she began weaving during residencies at the Asgard School in Denmark and …

Unrestricted Access was a special exhibition celebrating 50 years of SoHo20 Gallery promoting women artists. SoHo20 is an artist-run, feminist gallery founded in 1973. Janet was a member of the Gallery from 1988-1994. During that time she had 3 solo shows that were instrumental in the development of her artistic practice. She helped the Gallery receive its 501c3 tax status …

Janet was thrilled and honored to be selected for the first Sculptors Guild Residency at Tre Luci Studios for the month of June, 2025. Pietrasanta is a sculptors’ town. Pietrasanta means sacred stones. Marble has been worked in the town for over 500 years, since Michelangelo. Most people you meet are sculptors. Stone and bronze sculptures and the materials for …

Janet was thrilled and honored to be awarded a three week residency at VCCA’s Moulin a Nef Studio Center in Auvillar, France. She worked on Woven Journey, a book project marking her 50 years of connection with Mali. She organized and edited years of writing about Mali, took lots of walks, made  watercolors. And Janet developed a good flow between …

VanDeb will be showing Handmade Books at the Inaugural Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair. I am happy to be showing two steel books including Triangle, Circle, Square (shown here).

Janet presented Exploring Global Artistic Connections, a Round Table atTransCultural Exchange’s 2025 International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Avenues for Daring During this unique global gathering, we will consider the pressing need for diversity, political equity, and climate and social justice. Now more than ever. We will do so, while also celebrating the arts’ ability to provide joy, respite, and common ground for …

” A cavernous cubbyhole with a variety of enigmatic gunmetal stalagmites emerges from the relative monotony of the urban backdrop of St. John’s Place in Crown Heights.  Janet Goldner’s collection of sculptures, called Zigzags, populate FiveMyles’ exterior space, and while the viewer can enter this space through the gallery, the initial impression of jagged edges, pent-up energy, and the cold …

Following the highly successful Preserving Mali’s Motion Picture Film Heritage project in 2023, we were excited to be working on the second phase, The Rehabilitation of the Archives Room of the National Center for Cinematography of Mali (CNCM) in Bamako, Mali. The film archives room of the National Center of Cinematography of Mali is an essential pillar in the preservation …

Circular. Rectangular. Triangular. Zigzags. Sitting and standing like a flock of visiting ancestral spirits, Janet Goldner’s Zigzags gather in silent assembly behind the Plus/Space gate. We can peer in at their hard three-dimensional bodies, dark with patina and age. An alphabet of abstraction.   These welded steel sculptures are inspired by the artist’s annual research trips to Mali over many years. …