Jane South is a British American artist and educator known for large scale installations, mixed media constructions, and fabric wall pieces.
[1] Born in Manchester, UK, South received a BFA in Theatre Design from Central School of Art in 1987 and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro in 1997.
New York City in particular is de- and re-constructed so much that it exists in a constant state of undress, exposing its often dilapidated and or shoddily or cheaply constructed layers--to me it's a reminder of the illusory and temporary nature of our sense of place".
[5] South's 2020 solo exhibition Switch Back was described by Jillian Steinhauer in The New York Times as "what you might call soft paintings" that "evoke homemade creations like patchwork quilts and curtains as much as the post-minimalism of Eva Hesse and Robert Morris, and even Claes Oldenburg’s replicas of ordinary objects".
Her signature paper and balsa wood constructs are replaced by tectonic assemblages of softer materials -canvas, tarp, packing foam, and thread.