https://sarahelizabethforman.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for Sarah FormanenMon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/199730/uploads/03f22a68-d48b-40ce-8805-68a3bc51d311.pdfTo understand Jess Cochrane, her work, or how her light filled home studio came to be, you have to put process first. The 29-year-old, Australian born artist moved to Peckham in September of 2019 to start a new life in London with her record producer partner. In the process of settling in, Jess manged to find an artists’ studio just a 15-minute walk from their neighbourhood, a welcome distraction from the impending home improvement projects and impending change from the constant state of becoming that defines most renovations. But several months later, with Coronavirus at the fore, it became an unviable, and she made the difficult decision to relinquish her space designated for making, bringing it all into her terraced, three-bedroom Victorian house.Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/199730/uploads/03f22a68-d48b-40ce-8805-68a3bc51d311.pdfhttps://artreview.com/keep-dancing-lu-yang-delusional-world/ArtReview: Shanghai-based Lu Yang is not a performance artist. Lu Yang is not a video artist, a videogame artist, a digital artist. If you take them at their word, Lu Yang is not an artist at all. But the culminating attention from ‘global’ instiThu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://artreview.com/keep-dancing-lu-yang-delusional-world/https://artreview.com/can-an-art-critic-be-a-belieber-justin-bieber-justice/ArtReview: On Justin Bieber’s Justice and the lessons of millennial masculinity What do you think of when you hear the name Justin Bieber? A flippy-haired tween heartthrob? A self-destructive, tattooed train-wreck with a police record? A devout Christian and young husband? My money’s on one of the former rather than the latter, despite all three being true. A few weeks ago, Justin Bieber released his sixth studio-album, Justice, and if someone had tried to convince me there was any substance to it, I woThu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://artreview.com/can-an-art-critic-be-a-belieber-justin-bieber-justice/https://artreview.com/what-does-the-future-of-art-exhibitions-look-like-slime-engine/ArtReview Asia: Enter the Shanghai-based collective’s interactive shows, hosted in dystopian amalgamations of well-known cities, in oceanic abysses, on roller coasters and desert islands COVID-19 has instigated an onslaught of online initiatives that have saturated the digital artworld with fairs, exhibitions, social-media campaigns and educational programming, in an attempt to play catchup to a now overwhelmingly online industry. While many institutions have scrambled to repackage their programming, others haTue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://artreview.com/what-does-the-future-of-art-exhibitions-look-like-slime-engine/https://radiichina.com/liu-xiaodong-new-england/As the UK moves into its second nation-wide lockdown this week, as a result of a second wave of Covid-19, restaurants, pubs, non-essential shops and art galleries once again close their doors to the public, with no fixed idea of when they’ll be able to reopen. For galleries, that means canceled openings, programming being pushed back, and the possibility that shows that have to prematurely end may or may not see an extra lease of life on the other side.Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://radiichina.com/liu-xiaodong-new-england/https://monikerprojects.com/how-can-we-read-damien-hirsts-work-in-a-covid-19-climate/Moniker Projects: Damien Hirst is obsessed with health. He’s obsessed with life, death, the body, science, and religion. They’ve consumed him and his work since before his days at Goldsmith’s College of Art, and have continued to do so ever since, leading him to become one of the most recognisable contemporary British artists of the last hundred years. But his fame and popular Pop-Art aesthetic may actually distract from the content of his work, themes that offer particular resonance in a climate coping...Sun, 01 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://monikerprojects.com/how-can-we-read-damien-hirsts-work-in-a-covid-19-climate/https://monikerprojects.com/explainer-post-vandalism/Moniker Projects: Post-Impressionism, Postmodernism, Post-Internet, the art market is oversaturated with value laden words that suggest art “after” something marks paradigmatic shifts in the way artists make, and the way that we make sense of work as a whole. Aside from its problematic, unidirectional approach to history (that excludes and others non-Eurocentric narratives) the prefix does have useful applications when handled with care, and one of those ways is when applied to the term “vandalism”.Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://monikerprojects.com/explainer-post-vandalism/https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/199730/uploads/1073f062-e1bb-4133-93c6-9f861c0aa3fa.pdfOnOffice Magazine: In the heart of ancient Rome lies a palace buried beneath the ground, an incomplete architectural feat built by Emperor Nero that was stripped of its jewels, marble and ivory veneers not long after his death. Filled with earth, the Domus Aurea remained hidden until the 15th century, where at the birth of the Renaissance it was rediscovered, becoming a site of study for artists like Raphael and Michelangelo. This recovery, this wellspring of cultural production, was an important source of inspiration for these painters and sculptors, and nearly 600 years later it remains so for the digital pioneers behind AORA.Sat, 01 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/199730/uploads/1073f062-e1bb-4133-93c6-9f861c0aa3fa.pdfhttps://monikerprojects.com/bridget-riley-teaching-and-training/British optical-artist Bridget Riley has long been championed for her use of colour and shape to deceive the eye, most recently in her large-scale solo exhibition at the Hayward Gallery that closed this past January. But for many, the first time they will have heard of her is in a classroom. Her works have been used by dozens of schools across the country to teach children about artistic principals and create their own frameworks for experimentation.Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://monikerprojects.com/bridget-riley-teaching-and-training/https://radiichina.com/gallery-weekend-beijing-2020/The nine days lasting from May 22-31 marked a number of firsts for Gallery Weekend Beijing. The much-anticipated art event is the biggest in the capital, and the closest thing the city’s 798 Art District has to an art fair. This year’s edition — delayed several months by the Covid-19 outbreak — saw the opening of new gallery spaces and the reopening of previously shuttered ones, with hundreds of people coming to browse and buy from all over China.Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://radiichina.com/gallery-weekend-beijing-2020/https://radiichina.com/beijing-artist-wang-wei-london-church/RADII China: You probably wouldn’t expect to find a contemporary Chinese art installation in one of north London’s residential neighborhoods, and at first glance, walking into St. Saviour’s Church in Highbury will not do much to ease that skepticism. Enter through the back door and you’re met by a temporary wooden corridor that zigzags into the main part of the decommissioned building. But make your way through the short maze and you’ll find your confidence return as the grey hall opens up into a nave...Wed, 23 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0100https://radiichina.com/beijing-artist-wang-wei-london-church/https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/26478/history-behind-shenzhens-blossoming-underground-electronic-sceneThat's Mags: Electronic music has literally taken China by storm in the last few years. With big name festivals like Ultra and corporate partnerships between companies like SHFT and Budweiser, the genre has come into its own in a big way across the country. But one city in the PRC has had its hat in this race for much longer, with a budding underground scene in the works for nearly 10 years.Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/26478/history-behind-shenzhens-blossoming-underground-electronic-scenehttps://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/25109/spinning-out-shanghai-based-teen-dj-gouachiThat's Mags: While many children in China grow up learning to play traditional instruments like the piano or violin, Shi Jiayuan, better known by her stage name, Gouachi, opted for turntables instead. Over the last few years, she’s made a name for herself in Shanghai and across China, but her story is just as interesting as her sound.Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/25109/spinning-out-shanghai-based-teen-dj-gouachihttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-grueling-hyper-competitive-exams-decide-futures-chinese-art-studentsVery few would question whether applying to university is a stressful process. For many Chinese students, that process is taken to a whole new level—and applying to art school is no exception. Every year, thousands of Chinese art students travel to the nearest major city for practical exams, part of the application process to get into university art programs. They sit alongside their peers in sprawling hotel conference rooms or athletic facilities, with pencils and paints in tow.Fri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-grueling-hyper-competitive-exams-decide-futures-chinese-art-studentshttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-marcel-duchamp-impacted-contemporary-chinese-artLesser known, however, is Duchamp’s role in shaping art in China, an aspect of the artist’s reach that Hong Kong’s M+ museum will explore when it opens in 2019 by displaying a recently acquired collection of the artist’s works, as well as related objects and archival materials. Few influenced the trajectory of western art in the past 100 years as much as. Lesser known, however, is Duchamp’s role in shaping art in China, an aspect of theartist’s reach that Hong Kong’s M+ museum will explore wheFri, 27 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-marcel-duchamp-impacted-contemporary-chinese-arthttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-shanghai-art-factory-constructing-massive-public-artworksArtsy: “One of the jewels of Good Fences Make Good Neighbors ”—the sprawling Public Art Fund project the Chinese artist mounted across New York City last fall—was a gleaming steel cage that sat within the arch at Washington Square Park. The work quickly became a destination for droves of locals and tourists alike, but few likely knew that the work itself was made in a factory on the other side of the globe, in a suburb of Shanghai, China. Ai’s piece was the first partnership between the New York-based...Wed, 14 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-shanghai-art-factory-constructing-massive-public-artworkshttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hong-kong-new-art-market-epicenterH Queen’s was inspired by architect William Lim’s personal experiences as a collector in Hong Kong, spending Saturdays walking up and down the hills of Central to attend exhibitions and openings. “It was an awful experience to go to galleries, especially the ones in office buildings,” he said. “I saw an opportunity with the growth of Art Basel and the scene in Hong Kong, that there was actually this need.”Fri, 26 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hong-kong-new-art-market-epicenterhttps://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-leo-xus-move-david-zwirner-chinese-art-marketDavid Zwirner and Leo Xu began their conversation at Art Basel in Hong Kong this past March. The fair, in its fifth year, had grown to over 240 dealers from 34 countries, with an increasingly international audience and a noticeable uptick in the sophistication of Asian buyers.Mon, 06 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-leo-xus-move-david-zwirner-chinese-art-market