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Cadeaux De Le Rue 2 (Gifts From the Streets) 4 feet x 6 feet, mixed media, 1999
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Numu, 34 inches x 77 inches, ink jet print, 2009
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Necklace (detail-family)-Images of the family the miners left to work in the mines ||| Small squares show images of the family miners might be thinking about during the 11 months of the year they worked in the mines.
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Necklace (detail-dormitory); Oval medallions show photographic images of the working conditions of miners in their dormitory and at work.
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Necklace, 12 inches x 21 inches x 24 inches, mixed media, 1992; Global Africa Project, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, 2010-11 ||| Necklace is a mixed media sculpture about the working conditions of South African gold miners during apartheid. Viewers are drawn to a beautifully presented ornate gold necklace.
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Wealth in Africa (detail), 32 inches x 38 inches x 4 inches, mixed media, video & sound, 2013; Multiple Exposures, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, 2014 ||| The work includes Goldner’s photographic images and video from Kalabougou, Mali, a village renowned for its potters and pottery where she conducted research during her Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship in 1994-5.
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Wealth in Africa, 32 inches x 38 inches x 4 inches, mixed media, video & sound, 2013; Multiple Exposures, Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, 2014 ||| Wealth in Africa is a mixed media sculpture in the form of a large necklace. Wealth in Africa highlights the richness of Africa– the people and their culture(s).
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Can We Acknowledge? (indoors), 4 feet x 25 feet x 4 feet, steel, 2002 ||| This work is an indoor sculpture in the vein of the Public Sculpture of the same name.
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ZigZag installation, Art Resources Transfer, NYC, 2003 ||| Some elements of the ZigZag Installation ( shown in the Free Standing Sculptures section) are suspended from the ceiling.
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Ally, 4 feet x 2 feet, steel, 1993 ||| Ally is one of the panels from Basics. Another tablet bears the definitions for “life,” “liberty,” “happiness,” and “pursuit.”
These words are so common that we no longer pay attention to them although they continue to define American political mythology.
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Basics, 12 feet x 14 feet x 4 feet, steel, 1993 ||| Words and definitions that underlie American political beliefs are cut thru the steel surfaces of the panels using a welding torch as a drawing instrument. By doing so, Janet combines art and poetry, bringing together the tactile, spatial forms of sculpture with elegant, succinct comments on contemporary social issues.
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Ntlomaw/WhY Installation, 6 feet x 7 feet x 25 feet, steel, 1997 ||| The WhY (Ntlomaw) series was inspired by Goldner’s research in Mali.
Burnt onto the steel panels, the ntloma/Y-stick form is an architectural pillar, in the form of a forked stick used as the support for traditional Malian adobe houses.