#MondayArtworkSpotlight: New York-based artist Jean Shin (@jean.shin) frequently uses donated clothing for her sculptural wall hangings. In her Seams series, Shin manipulates the familiar form of various shirts and dresses by cutting away the main body of fabric and leaving behind a continuous linear band around the stitch.
The remaining seam structures create an abstract drawing in space while referencing the body’s skeletal structure, proportion, gravity and gesture. Shin transforms these leftovers of our lives into visually arresting compositions of form, texture, and color that become surrogates for the human body. See her work “Gold Dress” (2003) in “Inside Out: Seeing Through Clothing” through July 12th when the museum reopens, and swipe through to see more of the artist's textile works.
