Biography
Jean Shin is best known for her labor-intensive process of transforming exhaustive accumulations of cast-off objects into visually alluring, conceptually rich works. Her sculptures and site-specific installations navigate the boundary between abstraction and representation, while considering both formal issues and cultural investigations. Her work has been widely exhibited in major national and international museums, including a solo project at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2004) and the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2006). In Spring 2009, she will be having a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC.
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The use of repetition and familiarity in objects, to me, shows differences between individual people and in some cases consumption of materials and objects and then the rejection of these objects. In some examples Jean Shin shows a connection of person to person but also shows the individuality of each other. She utilizes the things we leave behind that we don't realize. Lint, old dishes, excess clothing from alterations, pill bottles, old shoes.
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