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.
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
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.
Brown Daily Herald review of Jin Shan’s ‘My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!’
Maddie Berg 2012 “Exhibition sheds new light on Chinese nationalism” Brown Daily Herald, September 7. Read it here.
Artscope review of Jin Shan’s ‘My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!’
Suzanne Volmer 2012 “Jin Shan: My dad is Li Gang!” Artscope, September/October. Read it here.
Providence Phoenix review of Jin Shan’s ‘My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!’
Greg Cook 2012 “Jin Shan’s space station at Brown” The Providence Phoenix, September 4. Read it here.