Day Trip to Kingston, New York
Featuring Studio Visits with Arlene Shechet (F ‘12), Jean Shin (A ‘99), and Julianne Swartz (A '99, F '08), & Lunch
Join us for a day of studio visits and lunch in Kingston, New York. Council members, Trustees, and Governors will visit the studio of Julianne Swartz (A '99, F '08) , enjoy lunch and visit at the studio of Arlene Shechet (F ‘12), and finish the afternoon with a visit to the studio of Jean Shin (A ‘99).
Program Fee
$30
Visits and Lunch only
$100
Visits, Lunch, and Transportation to/from Skowhegan NYC office
Itinerary
8:45 AM
Guest arrival at Skowhegan NYC Office (136 W. 22nd)
9:00 AM
Van departs for Kingston, NY
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Julianne Swartz Studio Visit
12:15 PM–2:00 PM
Arlene Shechet Studio Visit & Lunch
2:10 PM–3:10 PM
Jean Shin Studio Visit
5:00 PM
Van drop-off at Skowhegan NYC Office
Arlene Shechet (F ‘12)
Arlene Shechet is a sculptor known for her effortless combination of disparate elements, precarious and provisional arrangements, and boundary-collapsing visual paradoxes. With gravity-defying work that seems to tilt, contort, bend, and melt, Shechet’s sculptures appear to be set in motion while still, unearthing the expressive potential of material and forms and forcing us to sit with—and move around—its contradictions. Highly technical and yet entirely intuitive, her work embraces improvisation and seeks to examine the humor and pathos of being alive and in a body.
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Shechet has been the subject of many solo exhibitions, including a major, critically acclaimed survey of her work, All At Once at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, in 2015 and an ambitious, large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead in Madison Square Park, New York in 2018, which featured monumental porcelain and mixed-media sculptures. Currently her exhibition Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums is on display and she is at work on a large exhibition scheduled for 2024 at Storm King Art Center.In 2023 she was elected to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This follows many other awards such as the Guggenheim Fellowship; Joan Mitchell Foundation; a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; and the CAA with the Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Shechet’s work is in over fifty public collections worldwide, including The Centre Pompidou, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Shechet is represented by Pace Gallery in New York and Asia, and by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles.
Jean Shin (A ‘99)
Jean Shin is known for her sprawling and often public sculptures, transforming accumulations of discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationship between material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement. Often working cooperatively within a community, Shin amasses vast collections of everyday objects—Mountain Dew bottles, mobile phones, 35mm slides—while researching their history of use, circulation, and environmental impact. Distinguished by this labor-intensive and participatory process, Shin’s creations become catalysts for communities to confront social and ecological challenges.
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Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the U.S., Shin works in Brooklyn and Hudson Valley, New York. Her work has been widely exhibited and collected in over 150 major museums and cultural institutions, including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC, and Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where in 2020 she was the first Korean-American woman artist featured in a solo exhibition. Shin has received numerous awards, including the Frederic Church Award for her contributions to American art and culture. Her works have been highlighted in The New York Times and Sculpture Magazine, among others.
Her body of work includes several permanent public artworks commissioned by major agencies and municipalities, most recently a landmark commission for the MTA’s Second Ave Subway in NYC. She is a tenured Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute and holds an honorary doctorate from New York Academy of Art.
Julianne Swartz (A ‘99, F ’08)
Acclaimed for her unique blend of high and low-tech materials, artist Julianne Swartz often makes the ephemeral presence of the viewer fundamental to her work. Her art quietly celebrates contradictions and dichotomies that invite us to slow down and sharpen our senses. With lenses, she transforms mundane objects and hidden locations into magical moving pictures. Using mirrors, she disorients a viewer’s spatial perception and self-awareness. Drawing on walls with thin lines of vinyl, she guides viewers to secret architectural spaces. Carefully arranging PVC tubing and speakers, she allows buildings to seemingly communicate with their inhabitants. These sculptures and installations engage viewer participation with elegance, humor, and intelligence..
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Swartz has exhibited widely, including site-specific commissions for the New Museum, Tate Liverpool, and the Tang Museum, and group shows at P.S. 1/MoMA, the Aldrich Museum, and Ballroom Marfa. She was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, and has had recent exhibitions at the Jewish Museum, the Colby College Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
If you wish to attend the Kingston Day Trip, please reserve your spot by selecting one of the below options by May DD 2023.
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For any questions, please contact Glorimar Garcia at glorimar@skowheganart.org.
Program fee for Kingston Day Trip studio visits, lunch, and transportation to/from Skowhegan’s NY Office (136 W. 22nd).