Project video released: Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Artist Jin Shan discusses the ideas behind his installation “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” (2012) in the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Video footage by Ian Alden Russell, Andy Romer Photography, Frank Mullin, and Tara Cavanaugh. More information: http://ianaldenrussell.com/projects/my-dad-is-li-gang-我爸是李刚
Jin Shan’s “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” featured in DRA
Jordan Mainser 2013 Art + Twitter = Chinese Democracy, DRA. Read it here.
The Phoenix selects rolemodelplaytime & My dad is Li Gang! as standout exhibitions
In his 2012 wrap up, arts critic Greg Cooke included rolemodelplaytime and Jin Shan’s My dad is Li Gang! as standout exhibitions in a year-end wrap-up for the arts scene in Rhode Island. Greg Cooke 2012 “Fantasy, reality, and the in-between: Lasting impressions” The Providence Phoenix, 18 December. Read it here.
China Daily feature on Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Mike Peters 2012 “A Fountain of Creativity” China Daily, December 16. Read it here.
A conversation with Jin Shan 靳山
7 September 2012 List Art Center Brown University On the occasion of the opening of Jin Shan’s “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” at the David Winton Bell Gallery, curator Ian Alden Russell speaks with the artist about his artist career. More information: ianaldenrussell.com/projects/my-dad-is-li-gang-我爸是李刚
China Daily USA feature on Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Mike Peters 2012 “Courting Controversy” China Daily, November 23. Read it here.
Art at 55 Power
2012 Art at 55 Power, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Catalog entries for Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Julian Lethbridge, Julian Schnabel, & Neil Welliver.
Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚! David Winton Bell Gallery 1 September – 4 November 2012 Video documentation by Andy Romer Photography
College Hill Independent review of Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Claudia Norton 2012 “The melting phallus of Jin Shan’s My dad is Li Gang!” College Hill Independent, September 14. Read it here.
Time Out Shanghai feature of Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
2012 “Art news: Movers, shakers, removers” Time Out Shanghai, 13 September. Read it here.