ARTIST STATEMENT

I spent my childhood rearranging the lives of dolls inhabiting the dollhouse my grandfather built when I was five. I now construct and photograph tableaus simulating the emotional and physical clutter surrounding relationships and distorting the sense of scale by working entirely in dollhouse miniatures. These photographs reveal domestic scenes that tantalize, unsettle and explore how personal interior space and voyeurism interact.

I create fictitious relationship scenarios where human figures are noticeably absent, yet their actions are evident. Placement of objects—a broken glass, a boom box, uneaten pigs in the blanket—is significant to the overall body of work and the image itself. Just one decoration has the power to beautify the whole room, while strange objects reveal character and background. Spirit animals appear as personal totems giving symbolic meaning to the narrative.

My recent series, Now It’s Clear, takes inspiration from The Princess and the Frog. A waitress, with dreams of her own, kisses a prince turned into a frog, becoming a frog herself. She must find a way back to being human before it is too late.

My goal in making art is creating scenes from which viewers can draw their own conclusions and examine and explore their own experiences. I want to inspire hope, desire, and joy and give meaning to the stories suggested in each vignette. Also, I emphasize situations people find themselves in every day and portray the emotional, anxious and sometimes sexually charged moments surrounding romantic relationships as well as a woman’s relationship with herself.

Lambert’s work has been exhibited publicly as part of the Dream Rooms exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC; DC ARTWALK and Public Garden, Washington, DC; the Open Sky Project in Rosslyn, Virginia; and ART ON THE ART BUS, Virginia. She is a three-time recipient of the DC Artist Fellowship Grant (2007, 2017, 2018) and received a 2004 Maryland State Arts Council Works on Paper grant. Her work is in private and public collections including the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Collection, the Wilson Building Art Collection, and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank. Lambert lives in Washington, DC and is represented by Civilian Art Projects in Washington, DC.

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