DALLAS, TX.- The Crow Collection opened its new exhibition Jean Shin: Inclusions, along with a site-specific installation in the Crow Collection of Asian Art Sculpture Garden entitled Celadon Landscape. Both opened to the public Saturday, May 16, 2015.

Brooklyn-based artist Jean Shin has been nationally recognized for her elaborate sculptures and site-specific installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community. As demonstrated in Shin’s previous works, she begins each project by collecting vast amounts of a particular object – many of which appear to have no value – and in turn draws meaning from these objects to create conceptually rich sculptures, videos and site-specific installations. Jean Shin: Inclusions features photography, digital prints, and video from several of Shin’s previous works including her Found Installation Series (2002), Celadon Threads (2008), And we move (2008) and Penumbra (2003).

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. This installation connects to the inaugural theme of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s first annual Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Soluna: International Music & Arts Festival, Destination (America), which will launch in the Dallas Arts District on May 7-24, 2015. This new work also greatly expands on Shin’s 2008 installation entitled Celadon Remnants commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit for a Long Island Railroad station in Queens, NY.

Jean Shin: Inclusions is on view in the Crow Collection’s Mezzanine gallery May 16, 2015 through October 18, 2015. Celadon Landscape is on view in Sculpture Garden May 16, 2015 through December 31, 2015.