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Bridget Sue Lambert explores the conflict-filled world of relationships and desire through the use of miniatures—specifically, a dollhouse populated by vintage dolls. Via large size pigment prints of ordinary intimate scenes and voyeuristic portraits constructed with these dolls, she explores the physical and psychological stages couples inhabit in a relationship from beginning to end.

Lambert is interested in evoking the tensions, anxiety, and muddle that exist in private exchanges.  By creating spaces filled with miniaturized everyday clutter, she is able to manipulate the viewer’s sense of time and space and offer frozen tableaus that suggest a living narrative.  Images of the one man and two women dolls hint at feelings of desire, fear, lust, love, faith, anticipation, and expectation. 

The ironic titles are inspired by self-help relationship books and allow Lambert to make light of uncomfortable situations. Although Lambert presents constructed vignettes peppered with references to popular culture, she nonetheless demonstrates the universality of human reactions and emotions

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Bridget Sue Lambert was born and lives in Washington DC. She received her BA in Studio Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park and then worked for Pyramid Atlantic: Riverdale for seven years as Assistant Director and resident printer. From 2001 to 2010 she ran AAGPA Editions, a digital fine art printing press in Annapolis, MD. From 2010 to 2011 Lambert ran Furthermore Prints, offering artists and photographers a contemporary digital press to create archival images and experiment with the latest printing techniques. She has exhibited in the DC area and is an active and visible local artist. Lambert is a Board member for the DC Arts Center (DCAC), a member of Mid City Artists and served on the Advisory Council of the Transformer Gallery from 2004 to 2009. In 2004, she received an Individual Art Award for Works on Paper from the Maryland State Arts Council. She was awarded a 2007 Artist Fellowship Grant by The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. In 2008 she was a semifinalist for the both the Janet & Walter Sondheim Award and the Trawick Prize. Her work was chosen for the first part of the DC Art Walk Project and has been added to the Wilson Building Art Collection and Art Bank. Lambert is currently a Resident Artist at Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia.