Janet Heath Canadian, b. 1958

Emerging in the late 1970s, Janet Heath developed a practice that resists conventional distinctions between painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her works are often modest in scale and materially understated, employing humble materials such as tissue paper; rationing a sense of their prior uses and inherent qualities, materials curl and fold, edges remain uneven, surfaces unpolished, as if the image-making process is being formed and unraveled in real time. Wherein each element is allowed to assert its own physical and tactile properties without concealment or embellishment, her work continues to challenge the viewer to slow down and attend closely to the subtitles of form, space, and perception. Heath received a BFA from Columbia University, New York and B.Sc. from New York University, New York.