With its oppos laser-cut louver station into a 35-inch circle in an 8-by-8-foot partition wall at the gallery entrance.With its oppos laser-cut louver station into a 35-inch circle in an 8-by-8-foot partition wall at the gallery entrance, Untitled (double chisel wall) permitted a limited view into Jane South's world of paper constructions just beyond. Her vocabulary was introduced on a floor assembly of three louver tympanums in black, gray and fluorescent r and sum of two units flat circles in red and white that present the appearanceed to be their shadows. Among other proper spheres seen in the works forward view, all primarily paper, were girders and girder piles cables, hooks and towers, for the most numerous part dated 2004 and made for this British-born artist's other exhibition at Spencer Brownstone. the one and the other floor and wall-mounted pieces emphasized the nature of her project: the witty conflation of drawing and cut With Rube Goldberg-like imaginings, these drawn, intersect folded and variously attached paper and balsa aims are reinforced with wax, in such a manner that even the most fragile-appearing cables, made of narrow strips of paper, look sufficient to the task they simulate. A 16-foot installation, Untitled (vertical shaft), comprised patches of flat mauve painted directly upon the wall like circuit boards, single at eye level, the other stop up to the ceiling. An inventory of uncompounded bodys emerged along the surface of the wall, including abstract housing units, purposes resembling window frames, and tympanums hanging from a hook and cable tethered to the surface of the wall--all instituteed of paper and mixed mediums with ink and watercolor embellishment. The many parts of the 40-foot expanse of the site-adjustable Untitled (horizontal strip) included interrupted bands of gray paint the color of the installation's darkest shadows, larger than the aims that supposedly cast them, enlivened by the agency of paper cylinders suspended in midair at opposing cables, hooks and toggle bolts Among the wall pieces in the rear gallery, the 4-by-3-foot Untitled (long recent construction) was ornamented by ultimate parts that seemed both industrial and domestic, including a cake sifter, tympanums and cantilevered structural members, all of which appeared to be suspended on one paper cable and a single pin. At 2 feet high, 1 base deep and 6 inches wide, the smallest of the works, Untitled (small recent construction), was suspended high up forward the gallery wall. It consists of a cagelike cylinder hanging by way of a thin cable from a small opening structure attached to the wall above. Perched like a diver at the finis of a grid of balsa splints, the cylinder dangled a secondary tiered vent. These charming, seriously quirky constitutions advance the cause of studio practice in an arena of scatter work that their hard-won forms barely marginally recall. --Edward Leffingwell COPYRIGHT 2004 Brant Publications, Inc. |
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