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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Jean Shin
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Themes: identity Review: Jean Shin Jean Shin is a mixed media installation artist. Using discarded materials close to the body, Jean has employed used clothing and her own hair as primary mediums in her recent works. She transforms everyday detritus into new forms that celebrate imperfections as being a natural part of being human. Critical to this transformation is the intimate process of collecting and manipulating the materials by hand in a labor intensive manner. (cited from Spirit of y-KAN) The curator Susan Harris wrote of her work as "I am struck by the poignancy and humanity of Jean Shin's pants scraps in Alterations. They are vulnerability, loneliness and longing incarnate. They are emblems of excess, abnormality, otherness. Each individual component is a reject - an unessential fabric remnant left lying on some tailor's floor - until rescued and reconstituted into a new identity. The individual, the subgroup, and the collective - cylindrical forms of various heights standing stiff, upright, and assembled in groups by similar color. Like a band of bedraggled refugees, they have come together and, in solidarity, form a new and vital entity." Available research materials of this artist in the AAAC Archives are invitation cards, a CD-ROM of the slide images of the artist's works, reviews and three catalogs of group exhibitions in which the artist's works were included. Reviewedby Young Park, Curator | |||||||||
