JANE SOUTH
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Making sketches for the armatures of her large concrete sculptures, Jane South became curious about the activity of drawing in relation to sculpture. She was particularly interested in the possibility of combining the two forms while retaining a simultaneous sense of two- and three-dimensionality. She began to simplify, distort, and manipulate the drawings: cutting out the spaces and assembling the remaining linear webs into sculptural elements that sometimes appear like models of the larger sculptures. She suspends these paper structures off the wall with tiny paper hooks and lines. Attached to the wall, the sculptural constructions cast shadows that flatten them out into two-dimensions again. These two- and three-dimensional drawings describe a fragile and playful imaginary landscape of ambiguous perspective and scales.

After graduating at Central School of Art (now Central/St. Martins) in London, Jane South moved to the US where she completed her MFA. She is the recepient of many major awards and residenicies, including most recently, a 2003 Massachusetts Cultural Council award for her installation 'Working Drawing' at the MASS MoCA.

Check out Jane's website at: http://www.janesouth.com

Jane South at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, February/March, 2004







JANE SOUTH

Born in 1965 in Manchester, England
Lives and works in New York City
 
 

EDUCATION

1995-97 MFA Painting & Sculpture • University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1984-87 BA Theater Set and Costume Design Central • (now Central/St. Martins)
1984-88 School of Art, London
1983-84 Fine Art Foundation Course • Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston, UK
 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Jane South: Infrastructures, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2006 Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Savannah College of Art & Design, Lacoste Campus, France
2005 Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles
2004 Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
  Suzanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles
2003 Working Drawing, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Directions in American Drawings, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; and Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
  CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006 Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
Technocraft, Wignall Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2005 Drawing Narrative, College of Wooster Art Museum, OH
  Odd Lots, The Queens Museum, New York
  Solitude and Focus, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
  Constructed Worlds, f a Projects, London, UK
  Look Look Again, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2004 Drawn and Quartered, SECCA, North Carolina
  Paper Chase, Muller De Chiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2003 All Nine, Nauussauischer Kunstverein, Weisbaden, Germany
  Bits and Pieces, Dumbo Art Center, New York
  Take Out, Dieu Donné, New York
  Working it Through, Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA
  Perforations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
2002 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
  Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
  DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, MA, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
   
 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Paper Pushers.” Art News (New York) vol. 106 no. 5 (May 2007), pp.148-51.
  May, Whitney. “Paper Industry.” NY Arts International Edition (New York) vol. 12, no. 1/2 (Jan/Feb 2007), p. 16.
2006 Turvey, Lisa. “Jane South.” Artforum International (New York) vol. 45, no. 4 (Dec. 2006), p. 308.
2004 Leffingwell, Edward. “Jane South at Spencer Brownstone.” Art in America (New York), September 2004, p. 123.
  Mendelsohn, Meredith. “Jane South.” ArtNews (New York) vol.103, no. 6 (June 2004), p. 118.
  Wilson, Michael. “Jane South.” Frieze (London), issue 83 (May 2004), p. 95.
  Rosenberg, Karen, ed. “The Week, Art, Talent: Paper Tiger.” New York (New York), February 23, 2004, p. 74.
  12 Views. Exh. cat. New York: The Drawing Center, 2001.
   

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