Glenbow Museum, Alberta runs an exhibition named 'Connections to Collections: Jin-Me Yoon' through September 20, 2009.
In 2002, Vancouver-based artist Jin-me Yoon explored Glenbow's railway paintings commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway (beginning in the 1880s) to promote tourism and settlement in the West.
This compelling work reflects upon the relationship between tourism and cultural identity and raises complex questions about the ways in which identity is formed.
The picture shows Jin-me Yoon, Welcome Stranger Welcome Home (detail), 2002, Collection of Glenbow Museum, Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetee avec l‘aide du programme d‘aide aux acquistions du Conseil des Arts du Canada and with funds from the Glenbow Collections Endowment Fund, 2003. -- www.glenbow.org
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