Jean Shon is a visual artist and educator working at the intersection of images, text, installation, and photography. Her work lingers between the thresholds of legibility & illegibility, rupture & relation, and fact & fiction in order to sustain connection through loss. She often employs family and community artifacts as immediate vessels to the intimate and familiar. Through subtle manipulation and regeneration, the work is pared down to its essence, asking us to redefine our relationships to a being, a space, a notion, a thing. She, in turn, is creating a new archive—a speculative one based upon her evolving relationship with the material. Rather than being reduced to static archival relics, her work opens up space to reconstruct memory in perpetuity.

Register for Artist Talk