2018 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region - Old
October 11 – December 8, 2018
2018 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
October 11 – December 8, 2018
Founded in 1936, the Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region is among the longest-running regionals in the country and provides a leading benchmark for contemporary art activity in the Upper Hudson Valley and Adirondack regions. The exhibition focuses on contemporary artists living and working within a 100-mile radius of the Capital Region and rotates annually among the University Art Museum, the Albany Institute of History & Art, and The Hyde Collection in Glens Falls.
Jean Shin has exhibited at more than 150 museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia/ and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. She recently completed a landmark commission, Elevated, for the New York City’s new Second Avenue Subway. Recognizing the concealed potential of everyday objects, Shin takes forgotten and discarded items and reinvigorates them through deconstruction and reassembly. Generating vast installations that comment on consumerism, hope, and transformation, she often solicits materials from the community in which the work is installed, creating compelling expressions of identity through social exchange.