mel chin
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Mel Chin (Houston, TX 1951) has a 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. Revival Field (1989-ongoing) has verified the use of plants to remove toxic metals from the soil. Chin also expands the catalytic possibilities of art into issues, such a lead (pb) pollution in soil, confronting entire cities. Operation Paydirt/Fundred Dollar Bill Project (www.fundred.org) is pioneering a way art can not only provide engagement, provoke greater social awareness and responsibility, but also activate scientific process and partnerships to deliver a solution to the problem. His projects are consistent with a conceptual philosophy, which emphasizes the practice of art to include sculpting and bridging the natural and social ecology. Chin, a 2010 United States Artists Fellow, has been documented in Art of the 21st Century (PBS) and received awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Matters, Creative Capital, and the Penny McCall, Pollock/Krasner, Joan Mitchell Foundations, among others.
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THEMES
Politics
Ecology
Scientific Preoccupations
Mapping
From Dreams
Viral Methodology
Esoteric Associations
Memento Mori
Surrealism
Homage
Violence
AMONG OTHERS
Collaborative
Participatory/Interactive
Public Commissions
Insertions
Performative
2D
Drawing
Painting
Collage
Prints
Studies
3D
Sculpture
Installations
Multiples
OTHER
Proposals
Artist Books
Films
Site-Specific Works
Digressions
Personas
![Frying Fish/Fish Hell [by Mo’ Jones]](https://melchin.org/oeuvre/wp-content/uploads/1984/09/fryingfish_t.jpg)