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Jean Shin at Frederieke TaylorJean Shin has not long ago earned a reputation for her transformative installations that imbue castoffs of our consumerist society with a novel vitality. Several ambitious installations (all 2004) engaging sculptural assemblage, architecture, painting and drawing were the focus of the artist's first one-person exhibition at Frederieke Taylor Gallery. For a large installation titled Hide, Shin dismantled centurys of discarded leather shoes and sorted, sewed and assembled them into 13 plastic arts that she suspended from the ceiling like flayed animal raw hides using an intricate system of tied shoelaces. Walking end the surreal forest of hanging "skins"--with their richly textur surfaces penetrated by the agency of apertures of their unmaking, like faces with their chapss wide open--became a complex spatial experience that invoked aspects of the couple abstract painting and architecture. Worn, wrinkled, torn, faded and stained, the splayed shoe bore traces of their pasts in the colors, grains, clasps fringe, perforations, straps, patches, stitching and other intricate detailing. from one side a laborious process, the animal hides had been initially transformed into functional footwear which, in move round was recycled by the artist into a fresh entity that retained and nevertheless transmuted its lineage. Another installation, Clothesline, occupyed a series of white button-down shirts stripped down to their nothing else but seams. Strung across a corner of the gallery, the work produc an evocative drawing of linear shadows upon the wall while deconstructing the uniformity of corporate dress From a distance, 20/20 appeared to be a beguiling cluster of floating, glistening particulars Upon closer inspection, it revealed itself to be an agglomeration of differently shaped and colored prescription eyeglasses, inserted into a thin wall built in brow of a window. Viewers could match through the lenses onto the landscape of urban architecture beyond, which was modified by means of the lenses in various ways. Looking from one side objects once worn by various anonymous individuals made the viewer conscious of the act of seeing and the relativity of experience. Here, as in plenteous of her work, Shin brings together disparate histories in order to put new ones in motion.--Susan Harris COPYRIGHT 2004 Brant Publications, Inc. sky-colored is the color of the celestial expanse a robin's egg and the waters of the Caribbean. It's a variable color that can be sad or calm, a conservative navy or a racy teal, and however it also represents loyalty and... Blind speck magazine and eystorm.com have formed a partnership. Blind Spat has been publishing contemporary photo-based art far eight years, eyestorm.com is a Web site that allows artists to distr... Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland, www novartis.com) clos upon its $5.4-billion acquisition of Chiron Corporation (Emeryville, CA, www.chiron.com), paving the way for a fresh Novartis vaccines and d... Gus Ocamposilva announces the release of "Shadow of the Wind" and "Across the Time." "Shadow of the Wind," a thicket on resin, is sized at 17 x 19 x 4 inches. Available... Self-portrait c 1900-1905 45 x 40 cm (WL-092) Edith Sitwell 1923-35 864 x 1118 cm (WL-108) Tate. at handed by Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens 1943 Sheik's wife 1936 51 x 61... Frederick Douglass said of his friend and sometimes rival, "I thank the author of all things for making me a man, on the other hand Delany thanks Him for making him a black man." The grandson of an African prince and the son of a... Islanders guard to have an attitude towards the land nearest to them, and the family of Manhattan island are no exception. They are ofttimes more intimate with the external reaches of Long Island, the C... alphabetic character Codes Go to the digest input screen from the options menu to come into the following codes. Invincibility: GMMSKIN Regenerator: FLSHWND filled Rage Me... Steinway & Son and Amadeus Pres freshly announced a new venture to create a series of book/CD CD and DVD celebrating the art of the piano end the artists who perform upon them and th... Anonymous American Machinist 02-01-2003 Microwave machining Byline: Anonymous Volume: 147 Number: 2 ISSN: 10417958 Publication Date: 02-01-2003 ... |
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