Janine Lambers: Reaching Across

Janine Lambers: Reaching Across
May 16 – June 22, 2026

In this time of growing division and discontent I’d like to focus on reaching across perceived boundaries. Perceived because most of the time they are creations of our biases and delusions rather than reality. In my experience, while these notions are part of life and help us navigate our mundane existence, they are insignificant in the bigger picture of life. The deeper, more mysterious quest is finding the way home to unity or paradise / nirvana. All my work comes from a spiritual source teaching love, goodwill, peace, harmony and stillness.  That is the mindset I work in while creating. That is the reality I want to create.

Janine Lambers is a German born artist working from her studio in Beacon, NY. Trained under the auspices of the German Guild Academy she graduated as a gilder and during the course of her career developed into an artist. With a deep reverence and understanding of her craft she started to create her art. Over the years Lambers has exhibited her work on occasion but mostly works on commissions such as an 18ft gilded wall mural for a private super yacht and triptychs to national and international clientele.

Artist Statement:
I started making art in my mind as long as I can remember. Yet, the path to making ‘real’ pieces was a long one. My upbringing put emphasis on learning a skill that would guarantee a solid basis for life; and I am immensely grateful for my apprenticeship as a gilder as it has awarded me exactly that. Immigrating to the US and more specifically NYC landed me in the world of high end homes and clients that appreciate fine objects. This brought me in contact with incredible art over the years. The inspiration I feel from that is intensifying with each piece of art that springs from my mind. They express a combination of my lived experiences and learned wisdom with the ancient techniques I have honed for many years in new ways. In my ‘living paintings and living objects’ work I explore impermanence by challenging my concept of solidity and permanence. What I perceive to have a solid core or an identifiable form changes with closer inspection. What I see as a solid mass has merely a higher density. This density varies and opens up to where boundaries interweave and connect – where the different forms obscure
into one another.

Impermanence is shown through the choice of different karat gold / precious metals and silver leaf. The more pure the gold leaf the less it will change its color, the more silver content in it the more it will darken and tarnish over time. Gold symbolizes purity and eternity. Silver symbolizes the decaying aspect of nature. Some of my works are deliberately left unvarnished to allow them to continue to ‘live’ and thereby change their character.

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, May 16, 5 – 7 pm

Please join us to meet the artist and view the works; light refreshments will be served.

The WRCA galleries and art reception are always free and open to the public.

Gallery hours: Friday – Sunday, 12 – 5 pm

Image: Janine Lambers, Untying Knots, mixed media