An Artist Explores What 'Crosses The Ocean' In Porcelain And Painted Collage
Kyungmi Shin was born in South Korea and emigrated to the U.S. at 19. Colonization, cross-cultural impacts and immigration are all themes in her current exhibition, Father Crosses the Ocean.
My grandfathers (a tailor and a carpenter) came to America from Lithuania in the late 1800s. I've been thinking about their journeys lately, as immigrants from Central and South America dare to dream of futures here. These days, immigrants from Asia make up the largest share of new U.S. arrivals. And a Korean American artist in Los Angeles is capturing the experience of immigration in works that capture my attention and admiration.
Kyungmi Shin was born Christianat the Orange County Museum of Art in Santa Ana, Calif. — shows, in exquisite and haunting ways, the crossings of East and West, the residues of colonialism, clashes of cultures, and the fact that our stories may change, but our histories stay with us.
