Artist: Jean Shin (b. 1971)
Culture/Country: Seoul, Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Period: 2015
Medium: Ceramic shards, mortar, EPS foam
Collection Title: Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Ceramic discards donated by the city of Icheon
Artist: Jean Shin (b. 1971)
Culture/Country: Seoul, Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Period: 2015
Medium: Ceramic shards, mortar, EPS foam
Collection Title: Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Ceramic discards donated by the city of Icheon
Artist: Jean Shin (b. 1971)
Culture/Country: Seoul, Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Period: 2015
Medium: Ceramic shards, mortar, EPS foam
Collection Title: Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Ceramic discards donated by the city of Icheon
Title: Celadon Landscape
Artist: Jean Shin (b. 1971)
Culture/Country: Seoul, Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Period: 2015
Medium: Ceramic shards, mortar, EPS foam
Collection Title: Courtesy of the artist and Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York
Ceramic discards donated by the city of Icheon
Jean Shin’s new monumental site-specific sculpture for The Crow Collection of Asian Art Sculpture Garden references the shape of a Korean celadon vase, constructed from ceramic discards collected from numerous kilns in South Korea. These shards are the result of potters destroying finished ceramic vessels with any minor imperfections. As an immigrant from Seoul who was raised in America, Shin views the celadon fragments as a metaphor of the Korean diaspora, vibrant artifacts of the Korean people, their history and culture that are scattered all over the world to form new identities elsewhere.