Carter Burden Gallery starts the year off strong with Winter Mix, a vibrant group exhibition featuring recent works by seventeen of the gallery’s artists. Spanning a wide range of media, including oil on canvas, mixed media, ceramics, interactive sculpture, collage, drawing, printmaking, and more, Winter Mix highlights the diversity and creativity of the gallery’s artists, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary practice across disciplines.

Janet is excited to present three of her twig sculptures created during her residency in Pietrasanta in June, 2025.

Janet started making twig sculptures during covid. During the shutdown, she bought a large spray of plum blossoms at the Union Square Farmers Market. Janet watched as they opened and then slowly fell off the branches. Then she pulled the bare branches apart and made the first of the twig sculptures. As the twig sculptures developed, it was clear that her fiber roots were resurfacing in this work.

The series continued whenever Janet worked out of New York City. When she taught in the art department at Makerere University in Uganda on Fulbright Specialist grant, she used wire and raffia. At a residency in rural Pennsylvania and she made wall sculptures of twigs, raffia, wire, glue. 

In June 2025, during a residency in Pietrasanta, Italy, the twig sculptures came into their own. Made of twigs, wax, thread/cord, she cast three of the small sculptures in bronze. And six more that remain as twigs.