Imperfect Pearls in the Ether of Infinite Labor

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Mel Chin
Imperfect Pearls in the Ether of Infinite Labor
1998

About the Item

Edition of 25 medium: woodcut and lithograph, printed by Vinalhaven Press Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas and began making art at an early age. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. He developed Revival Field (1989-ongoing), a project that pioneered the field of "green remediation," the use of plants to remove toxic, heavy metals from the soil. Another project, Fundred Dollar Bill/Operation Paydirt, focuses on national prevention of childhood lead-poisoning. Chin is also well known for his iconic sculptures, works that often address the importance of memory and collective identity, and for inserting art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin’s work is exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad and was documented in the popular PBS program, Art 21: Art of the 21st Century. His proposal for a New World Trade Center was part of the American representation at the 2002 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Chin is the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including four honorary doctorates. A monograph of the installation, The Funk & Wag from A to Z, was published by the Menil Collection and distributed by Yale Unversity press in 2014. Furthermore, a traveling retrospective exhibition of his work, titled “Rematch”, opened at the New Orleans Museum of Art in February 2014, and subsequently traveled to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Asia Society, the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, and Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. A number of works from Chin’s recent solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery entitled “More Greatest Hits”, presented concurrently with “Rematch”, were on view at Miami Project art fair for Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2014. Chin has been exhibited nationally and internationally in institutions, such as: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Menil Collection, Smithsonian Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), The Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of Arts, Asheville Arts Museum, Royal Ontario Museum, Denver Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Asheville Arts Museum, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston) and Mint Museum of Art. He has been commissioned for public projects and installations for: MoMA P.S.1, The New York Times Magazine, Central Park Arts Commission, Bryant Park, Corcoran College of Art and Design, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Chin’s work awarded numerous honors, including: Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Pollock/ Krasner Foundation Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Creative Capital Grant, and an Honorary Doctorate - Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Chin’s work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, Art in America, ARTnews, Art Papers, New York Times, Times Magazine, Village Voice, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Sculpture Magazine, Scientific American, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle American Art: A Cultural History, Arts Magazine, The Houston Chronicle, and The Times Picayune. His work appears in many public collections including MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, High Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, New York Public Library, The Federal Reserve, Museum of Fine Art (Houston), El Paso Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art and Birmingham Museum.

Creator:
Mel Chin (1951, American)
Creation Year:
1998
Dimensions:
Height: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)Width: 15.375 in (39.06 cm)
Movement & Style:
Contemporary
Period:
21st Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New Orleans, LA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1052673402