Jean Shin: Common Threads
Now through July 26, 2009
I visited the Smithsonian American Art Museum to see the Jean Shin exhibit, after a student reviewed the exhibit for Exhibition Planning and Design. They described how the space was utilized, and described pieces that sounded like they were awaiting the landfill when they secretly held higher minded ideals in the hope to symbolize more than castoff emphemera. When I was in the exhibit, I saw how the artist made objects in the space. I saw the trophies firsthand everyday monuments - as they are called, pill bottles turned into light fixtures, broken umbrellas that created ambient noise, scraped off lottery tickets which were now "worthless" and sweaters that unravelled as another objet d'art moved through it. Sure it sounded like human detritus but in the presense of Shin's work I witnessed an exercise in conceptualism that assembled humble and overlooked material and marvelled visitors and made a familiar space hum with excitement made all too often alarms sound when you got too close. Be sure to visit this space in its last week if you get the chance and tell me what the state of the tower is in!
Now through July 26, 2009
I visited the Smithsonian American Art Museum to see the Jean Shin exhibit, after a student reviewed the exhibit for Exhibition Planning and Design. They described how the space was utilized, and described pieces that sounded like they were awaiting the landfill when they secretly held higher minded ideals in the hope to symbolize more than castoff emphemera. When I was in the exhibit, I saw how the artist made objects in the space. I saw the trophies firsthand everyday monuments - as they are called, pill bottles turned into light fixtures, broken umbrellas that created ambient noise, scraped off lottery tickets which were now "worthless" and sweaters that unravelled as another objet d'art moved through it. Sure it sounded like human detritus but in the presense of Shin's work I witnessed an exercise in conceptualism that assembled humble and overlooked material and marvelled visitors and made a familiar space hum with excitement made all too often alarms sound when you got too close. Be sure to visit this space in its last week if you get the chance and tell me what the state of the tower is in!
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