In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are traveling to Flushing, Queens where artist Jean Shin's “Celadon Remnants” (2008), at the LIRR Broadway Station features large-scale silhouetted vessels created from thousands of hand-selected traditional Korean pottery celadon fragments donated by the South Korean city of Icheon. Derived from ancient China and perfected in Korea, celadon wares are among the most widely admired of Korean ceramics. If a vessel is imperfect, it becomes scrap and joins the mountains of fragments in the Icheon region. Shin was determined to use these cast-off fragments, and the artwork serves as a metaphor for the history, culture, and identity of the Asian population in Queens. For Shin, the thriving Asian-American communities neighboring the Broadway Station bear resemblance to the “Celadon Remnants,” as each are transformed in a new location in a distinctively new form while preserving their cultural heritage.
Read about and visit Jean Shin's latest sculpture "Fallen" at Olana, on view through October 31!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/arts/design/frederic-church-olana-jean-shin.html
Visit @art_omi this Saturday, 5/29 for the opening reception of @jean.shin’s large-scale communal installation, “Allée Gathering”, a monumental picnic table made from salvaged wood.
