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The New York Public Library



presents

* *

An Artist Dialogue Series
Event<http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/12/15/artist-dialogue-jane-south-and-special-guest>

* *

*Jane South*

* in conversation with *

*Jeffrey Kastner*

* *

Saturday December 15, 2012

3:00 p.m.

* *

The Corner Room

1st Floor



The New York Public Library

Mid-Manhattan Library

5thAvenue at 40th Street

New York, NY 10016

917-275-6975

 www.nypl.org

*(directions) <http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/45/directions>*



*The Room opens to the public at 2:30 p.m.*

All events are FREE and subject to last minute change or cancellation.



Jane South and writer Jeffrey Kastner discuss the ideas behind South's
*Shifting
Structures* series and its site determined construction
*Stacks<http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/art-corner-room-exhibition-series-jane-south-shifting-structures-stacks>and
Pedestal
Components<http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/art-windows-exhibition-series-jane-south-pedestal-component>
for
**Art in the Corner Room** and Art in the Windows exhibition
series*,followed by audience Q&A.



Born in Manchester, England, *Jane South* <http://janesouth.com/> worked as
a set designer in experimental theater before moving to the United States
in 1989. She has lectured, taught, and served as artist in residence in the
United States, Italy, Germany, France, and Australia and is currently an
adjunct professor/critic in the Graduate Sculpture Department at Rhode
Island School of Design.

Her solo exhibitions include the Queens Museum, NY, The Weatherspoon Art
Museum, Greensboro, NC, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY and Susanne
Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Site-specific installations include Mass
MoCA, North Adams, MA, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Germany, the
Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, and White Columns, NY. Her work was included in
 *Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions* at the Whitney Museum of
American Art at Altria in 2007 and *SLASH: Paper under the Knife* at MAD
(Museum of Arts & Design), New York in 2010. Other exhibitions of her work
were held at The Drawing Center, NY, Williams College Museum of Art,
Williamstown, MA, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been reviewed and
published in *The New
Yorker*<http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/nyker_sb09.html>
*,** **The New York Times <http://janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/nyt_2010.html>*,
*The New York Sun* <http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Pages/06sun.html>, *The**
**LA Times* <http://janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/latimes08.html>,
*ArtForum*<http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/artforum.html>
, *Art in America* <http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/artinamerica.html>,*ART
PAPERS* <http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/artpapers.html>,  *Sculpture
Magazine* <http://www.janesouth.com/HTML/Pages/06sculpture.html>, *New York
Magazine* <http://janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/nyspencer.html>,
*Frieze*<http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/jane_south/>,
*ARTnews* <http://janesouth.com/HTML/Folio/artnews_09.html> and *NY Arts
Magazine*<http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/conversations/an-ambiguous-topography-a-conversation-with-jane-south>
amongst others.

She is the recipient of fellowships, grants, and residencies such as the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001, 2008), the New York Foundation for the
Arts (2007), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008), the
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH (2002, 2004) and Yaddo, Saratoga
Springs, NY (2001, 2002). Most recently she was a recipient of a 2009 Joan
Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant and a 2010 Camargo
Foundation Residency in Cassis, France. The artist is represented by Spencer
Brownstone Gallery, New
York<http://www.spencerbrownstonegallery.com/Artists/Jane_South/Jane_South.html>
.

*Jeffrey Kastner*<http://catalog.nypl.org/search%7ES1?/aKastner%2C+Jeffrey./akastner+jeffrey/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CB/exact&FF=akastner+jeffrey&1%2C9%2C>
 is the senior editor of *Cabinet* <http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/> and
was formerly senior editor of* ARTnews* and contributing editor of *Art
Monthly* and *Art/Text*. A frequent contributor to *Artforum*, his writing
has appeared in a wide variety of news and cultural publications, including
*Afterall*, *Bookforum*, *The Economist*, *frieze*, and *The New York Times*.
His work has been included in numerous books, including, most recently,*Land
Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook* (Royal Society, 2006),
*Fusion/Confusion*(Museum
Folkwang, 2008), *PhotoEspana* (PhotoEspana, 2008), and *Experimental
Geography* (Melville House, 2008). Kastner was the editor of *Land and
Environmental Art* (Phaidon, 1998), and co-editor of *Plop: Recent Projects
of the Public Art Fund* (Merrell, 2004), and *Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon
Matta-Clark’s Fake Estates* (Cabinet Books, 2005). Kastner has also
published catalogue essays on such artists as Doug Aitken, Jeremy Blake,
Willie Doherty, and Sarah Sze.

Initiated and organized by Arezoo Moseni in 2004, *Artist Dialogues
Series*provide an open forum for understanding and appreciation of
contemporary
art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or
other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new
ideas.


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