Community Artists’ Collective presents “What Would I Not Give”, a new solo exhibition by Professor Jean Shon.
Jean Shon: What Would I Not Give at the Community Artists’ Collective in Houston, TX
Opening Reception on Oct 11, from 4:00PM – 7:00PM
Artist talk and exhibition close on Nov 22, from 2:00PM – 5:00PM
As a second-generation daughter, designated memory keeper and family link, Shon is perpetually negotiating the burden of debt, guilt, and obligation with her kin. Her work is a testament to this struggle: piecing together fragments and residue in order to understand, honor and carry forward who and what came before us. Her work lingers between the thresholds of legibility and illegibility, rupture and relation, and fact and fiction to sustain connection through loss. Employing family and community artifacts as vessels to the intimate and familiar, Shon’s subtle manipulation of the work pares down to its essence, asking us to redefine our relationships to a being, a space, a notion, a thing. Shon, in turn, is creating a new archive, rather than being reduced to static relics, her work opens up space to reconstruct memory in perpetuity.
