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<div class="subhead_1">EXHIBITIONS</div>
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<div class='subhead_2'>Wednesday, June 19, 2013</div>
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<div class='event_img_'><img src='/dynamic/reynolds/events/image_2_3881.jpg' alt='Jean Shin, Chance City' /></div>
<div class='event_container'><div class='subhead_3'>Jean Shin: Common Threads</div>
<div class='black_bold'>05/01/2009 - 07/26/2009</div><div class='black'>Smithsonian American Art Museum</div>
<div class='black'>All Ages</div><div class="event_text">Jean Shin (b. 1971) is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform castoff materials into elegant expressions of identity and community. This exhibition features eight works created since 2000, including the new site-specific installation <i>Everyday Monuments</i> commissioned by the Museum in 2008.<br />
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She employs a meticulous process of dismantling and alteration to create evocative sculptural installations that are composed of everything from worn shoes and lost socks to broken umbrellas and discarded lottery tickets. The resulting assemblages consist of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of seemingly identical objects gathered from friends, relatives, and perfect strangers.<br />
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Shin's most recent project, <i>Everyday Monuments,</i> debuts in the exhibition. The sprawling installation consists of nearly 2000 trophies donated by Washington, D.C.-area residents and projected images of the altered trophies. Inspired by the well-known historic monuments and heroic statuary displayed throughout Washington’s public spaces, <i>Everyday Monuments</i> venerates the accomplishments of ordinary Americans—stay-at-home moms, waitresses, janitors, postal carriers—whose everyday labors go unrecognized. Shin transformed each figurine to represent these tasks. The trophies are arranged according to a scale plan of the National Mall, symbolically filling the expanse of Washington's signature public space.<br />
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The exhibition also includes <i>Chance City,</i> a towering cityscape of scratch-and-win lottery tickets, whose inevitable collapse serves as a metaphor for the illusory promise of fast money; <i>Chemical Balance III,</i> a towering arrangement of empty prescription pill bottles that speaks to a dependency on prescription medications; and <i>Unraveling,</i> a dense, brightly colored web of woolen threads that visualizes the network of relationships within the Asian American arts community. The exhibition is organized by Joanna Marsh, The James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art.<br />
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<b><i>Common Threads</i> Flickr Group</b><br />
Go behind-the-scenes on <a href=" http://www.flickr.com/groups/jeanshincommonthreads/ ">Flickr</a> to see images of the artist and her assistants, along with Museum staff, installing the exhibition. Join the group and load images of your worn-out sweaters, ridiculous business ties, grade school trophies and award ceremonies, broken umbrellas, and discarded lottery tickets, or your own creations made from everyday materials. Don't forget to include the stories behind them too.<br />
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<b>Credit</b><br />
The Smithsonian American Art Museum wishes to thank the Diane and Norman Bernstein Foundation Inc., Janice Kim and Anthony Otten, Nion McEvoy, and Nick and Holly Ruffin for their generous support of the exhibition.<br />
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<a href="http://americanart.si.edu/calendar/event/?key=3683&date=2009-05-01">Artist Lecture</a><br />
<b>Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7 p.m.</b><br />
Join artist Jean Shin when she speaks about her site-specific assemblages, and shares insights into her creative process.<br />
Reception follows.<br />
<i>McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level</i></div><div style="clear:both;"></div></div>
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<div class="grey_small"><em>Pictured Above:</em><br><br>Jean Shin, <i>Chance City,</i> 2001, $24,496 worth of discarded "Scratch & Win" losing lottery tickets (no adhesive), approximately 8 ft x 8 ft x 6 ft.
Installation at Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2004. Photography by Masahiro Noguchi.<br><br></div>
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