日期：七月七日（星期二）下午5-7点

　　策展：佐藤恭子

　　展出日期：7月7日-8月7日

　　开幕酒会：7月7日（星期二）下午5-7点

　　现场肖像行为艺术：羅一（Loy Luo），行为艺术舞蹈家克里斯托弗·佩尔哈姆（Christopher Pelham）

　　本期展品为100幅铅笔肖像。它们以纽约人为主体，以当前新冠肺炎大流行时期中的文明为观察点，向一线人员致敬。展览收益或佣金将资助白盒子为哈林区非裔，拉丁裔社区提供的免费项目。

　　现场出席人数有限！白盒子每次最多可容纳20人，相隔至少6英尺。如果需要，我们会提供口罩，手套和洗手液。当室内有8个客人的时候，额外的客人将被要求在人行道上排队，间隔至少6英尺。

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　　在刚刚过去的2020年4月20日晚上10点50分整，此时的纽约正处在冠状病毒大流行中，按照惯例，我打开脸书即时通，惊讶地看到一张充满活力的我自己的画像，就像是一个偶然的邂逅。画的作者是羅一。这很可能是我自童年以来，全家福照片之外，第一次有人创作我的肖像。我竖起大拇指，道：“哇-戴着口罩！”“谢谢！”。说来也怪，几天后再细看，我发现羅一所创作的我的肖像并不属于那种任何艺术家都能呈现的以“像你”为标准的画像。这并不是因为这幅画缺乏绘画技巧，而是因为它所呈现的是一种综合，即由外而内，通过一幅生动传神的外在我的画像捕获了内在我。这位艺术家要探索的是在描绘他人的同时寻找她的内在自我。就这次展览来说，100名纽约人生活在大流行病之下可以被理解为是庆祝纽约人在经历了9-11等里程碑式的时刻后所获得的韧性。值得一提的是，当我看到我的肖像所描绘的内在自我时，我也注意到了她在我身上的存在，完美体现了展览的主题“另一个我-他人之中的我”。

　　羅一于2020年1月9日到达纽约，当时白盒子正在为武汉艺术家柯明的一个重要展览布展。柯明先生因为他所在城市早期冠状病毒爆发而不能前来纽约。展览在艺术家缺席的情况下于2月8日开幕。那时，无论羅一还是白盒子的任何人都没有想到纽约最终也会陷入到相同的困境。

　　纽约市的一切对于她来说都是新的。2月23日，羅一拍了一张纽约观光娱乐巴士的照片。这种观光巴士的概念就是以街道为剧场。观光者们正在天真地欣赏街上上演的戏剧。她用这张照片画了一幅画。画中，我们可以听到在病毒或灾难来临前，时钟的滴答声。在时代广场，她还看到一些艺术家在室外画肖像。就在她见到观光巴士的第二天，2月24日，羅一也开始她的肖像创作。渴望在这世界上最大的城市里、在病毒的威胁下，精神和肉体生存下去，羅一开始在街上寻找各式各样的人画肖像；白色的，黑色的，棕色的，黄色的，红色的，年老的，年少的，母亲，儿童，男人，女人……她画的不仅仅是人类。在禁足令期间，很多人变得孤独，收养狗做伙伴。它们也是艺术家的创作对象。

　　羅一说流行病期间，她的‘肖像行为’让人们感到快乐。她还说画肖像也让她感觉良好。我把艺术家们创作肖像当作是他们与被画者之间的对话交流。这是一种‘在一起’的方式，一种不害怕也不孤独的方式。当一个人，包括我自己，收到肖像画的时候，这个人可以感受到来自她的关爱。的确，肖像创作为她和被画人的治愈过程都做出了贡献。

　　羅一的艺术行为让我想起了中川直人（Naoto Nakagawa），他是一位自1960就在纽约工作的日本绘画大师。2011年，在一场大地震及随后的海啸夺走了近16000人的生命后，他飞往了日本东北地区。他拜访了那里的无名人士，创作了上千幅的肖像。他为一名儿童院里的四岁孩子画了他的最后一幅肖像。我记得他跟我说过，“日本是我的祖国，我想为我的国家做点什么。”他相信没有爱的艺术作品是没有价值可言的。这一点，我完全赞同。这次的大流行病似乎更加印证了法国社会科学家雅克·阿塔利（Jacques Attali）的理论，那就是，考虑到他人及他人的益处将同时有益于我们自己。

　　羅一和中川都本能的体现了阿塔利的理论。执行这样的艺术项目，对本人及周围的人都有效果。羅来纽约寻找她的身份认同，并身陷于大流行病的热点地区。她通过碰触另外100个灵魂成功的找到了自我。

　　简历

　　羅一是在北京工作和生活的中国艺术家，1972年出生于江西南昌。目前，她是白盒子哈林区项目空间的常驻艺术家。她自到来起就一直在那里从事肖像行为项目的创作。

　　羅一的创作包括抽象绘画及雕塑。她于2010年获得北京服装学院艺术硕士学位，2010-2012年在北京科技大学任教。她还在Artron.Net发表艺术评论。

　　羅一的作品曾在中国、意大利和法国展出。

　　她的个展包括：

　　“镜”（中国河北阿纳亚海滩艺术展）；

　　“静穆”（中国北京锦都艺术中心，2018）；

　　“一起跳舞”（意大利罗马FUNSPACE艺术空间，2016）；

　　“悬浮”（中国北京798宁空间画廊，2015）。

　　她的群展包括：

　　北京快闪双年展（中国，2019）；

　　“绘画的逻辑线”江苏金鸡湖美术馆展（江苏，2019）；

　　卡斯特罗萨维利艺术节展（意大利罗马，2019）；

　　圣维南齐奥建筑展（意大利罗马，2018）；

　　“诗性，介域”中国当代抽象雕塑艺术展-中国世界文化交流促进协会、“雕塑”杂志承办（中国北京，2016）；

　　她的作品被包括瑞金博物馆、北京锦都艺术中心的私人和公众收藏。

　　克里斯托弗·佩勒姆（Christopher Pelham）

　　2004年，与作家/讲师Yasuko Kasaki在联合广场附近共同创办艺术与治疗中心CRS（记忆与分享中心），任主任及联合创始人。他是由Lale Sayoko领导的纽约市苏菲舞社的组织者，也是“跨越边界音乐会”系列的制片人，该系列由亚洲各地的策展人和艺术家组成。他也是一个精神治疗师/顾问/教师/艺术家，他借鉴了《奇迹课程》，《非暴力交流》，《即兴戏剧》和《当代萨满教》的实践。在开设CRS之前，他在戏剧和当代舞蹈方面更加活跃，并有幸在La Mama，HERE，莫西·坎宁安（Merce Cunningham）工作室等地与许多出色的艺术家合作演出。

　　LOY LUO "THE OTHER I" OPENING RECEPTION

　　DATE:Tuesday, July 7th from 5-7pm

　　Curated by Kyoko Sato

　　July 7th - August 7th, 2020

　　Opening Reception : Tuesday, July 7th from 5-7pm

　　Live Portrait Drawing by Loy Luo and Dervish Dancer Christopher Pelhamn

　　Ongoing Exhibition of 100 Pencil Portraits of New Yorkers as Observation of Civility Under our Present Day Covid-19 Pandemic Celebrating Essential Workers. Proceeds of Benefit Sale or Commission will support WhiteBox Harlem's free programs to our underserved Black and Latinx communities

　　Limited live attendance! WhiteBox will allow maximum of 20 people at a time, standing at least 6 feet apart; masks, gloves and hand sanitizer will be provided if any of our guests need them. When our space has 8 people, additional guest will be asked to line up on the sidewalk at least 6 feet apart.

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　　- Live stream the Opening Reception on Facebook -

　　It was in the midst of New York's Covid-19 pandemic this past April 20th, 2020 at exactly 10:50PM when, guided by my confinement routine, I opened my Facebook Messenger and to my surprise-a chance encounter of sorts, astonished-I saw my own vibrant drawn portrait executed by Loy Luo. It may well be the first time since childhood, that someone has created my portrait outside the typical family snap shot photo. I gave thumbs up and responded, "Wow-Wearing a mask!" and, "Thank you!". Oddly enough, days later and upon closer examination I found my portrait by Luo not to be a run of the mill 'it looks like you' standard portrait any artist can render. This was not due to any lack of skill whatsoever, but rather a synthesis of my inner self captured in an eloquent vibrant image of me seen from the outside in. The artist had in mind a quest to find her inner self in the portraying of the other. In the case of this exhibition; 100 New Yorkers living under the pandemic. Understood as a celebration of resilience, a trait New Yorkers have earned after enduring other milestone moments like 9/11, it may be notable to point out that in seeing my inner self surreptitiously described by my portrait, I also noticed her presence in me thus perfectly enshrining the exhibition's title "The Other I - The Me in the Other." 

　　Luo arrived in New York on January 9, 2020, as WhiteBox was installing a momentous exhibition by Wuhan based artist Ke Ming. Ke Ming was kept from traveling to NYC due to the early Coronavirus explosion his city experienced rendering the entire eleven million city souls fully confined. The opening of the exhibition took place on February 8th with the artist in absentia. At that point in time, neither Luo nor anyone at WhiteBox imagined New York would end up in exactly the same predicament. 

　　Everything in New York City was new to her. On February 23rd, Luo took a photograph of "The Ride NYC", a long run sightseeing entertainment bus whose concept is the street as theatre. The audiences were innocently enjoying viewing the theatre taking place on the street. She made a drawing out of that photograph. In the drawing, we can hear the sound of a clock ticking before the virus or disaster arrives to the city. 

　　At Times Square, she witnessed some artists were drawing portraits outside the studio. It was the day after her witnessing of The Ride bus, on February 24th, that Luo started to create a portrait. Eager to survive mentally and physically in this largest city in the world under the sign of the snaking danger of the virus she then began to search for all kinds of people on the street to draw portraits; white, black, brown, yellow, red, old, young, mother, child, man, woman, and all LGTBQ. She has been drawing not only human beings. During the stay at home order many people become lonely, and adopted dogs as companions, creatures the artist would also portray. 

　　Luo says that her 'portrait performances' under the pandemic have made people happy. She also says making portraits have made her feel good. I see the artist as in conversation with a person while making his or her portrait. It is a way of being together, a way of not being scared or lonely. When a person, including me, receives a portrait, one feels cared for by her. Indeed, making portraits is contributing to the healing process for both herself and the other who receives the drawing. 

　　Luo's performance reminds me of Naoto Nakagawa who is a Japanese master painter based in New York since the 1960s. He flew to the northeast region of Japan after a huge earthquake followed by a Tsunami took almost 16,000 lives in 2011. He visited anonymous people there to create a thousand portraits. He made the last portrait of a 4 year-old boy in a nursery. I remember him telling me that, "Japan is the country I am from. I wanted to do something for my country." It is his belief that an artwork without love is valueless. With this I totally agree. The pandemic seems to affirm the theory of French social philosopher Jacques Attali that thinking about the other and their benefit will benefit ourselves at the same time. 

　　Both Luo and Nakagawa instinctively embody Attali's theory. Making such art projects happen fulfills both themselves and others around them. Luo came to New York to find her identity and ended up inside the hot spot of a pandemic. She has been successful in finding herself through touching a hundred other souls.

　　Biography 

　　Loy Luo

　　Loy Luo is a Chinese artist who lives and works in Beijing. She was born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in 1972. She is currently artist-in-residence at WhiteBox Harlem Project Space where she has been working on a performance portrait project since her arrival.

　　Luo creates abstract paintings and sculptures. She received her MFA from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in 2010 and taught art at the University of Science and Technology, Beijing from 2010-2012. Luo contributes art reviews for Artron.Net. ?

　　Her works have been exhibited in China, Italy and France. Her solo exhibitions include: "Mirror" at Anaya Beach Art Fair (Heibei, China); "Stillness" at Beijing Jindu Art Center (China) in 2018; "Dance Together" at Fun Space Gallery (Rome, Italy) in 2016, and "Suspending" at 798 Ning Space Gallery (Beijing, China) in 2015. Luo has participated in numerous group shows including: The Beijing Flash Biennale (China 2019); the Shouzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum (Jiangsu, China, 2019); the Castello Savelli Festival (Rome, Italy, 2019; the San Venanzio Architecture Exhibition (Rome, Italy, 2018); "Poetry, Medium Domain" China Contemporary Abstract Sculpture Art Exhibition organized by China World National Culture Exchange Promotion Association and Sculpture Magazine (Beijing, China, 2016); the Chinese Businessmen Museum (Beijing, China, 2015), and the Changdu International Art Exposition (Sichuan, China, 2014). Her works are held in private and public collections including the Ruijin Museum in Jiangxi, and the Jindu Art Center in Beijing.

　　Christopher Pelham

　　Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), an arts & healing center near Union Square co-founded with writer/lecturer Yasuko Kasaki in 2004. He is the organizer of the NYC Sufi Dance community led by L?le Sayoko and producer of the Crossing Boundaries Concert Series that features curators and artists from all over Asia. He is also a spiritual healer/counselor/teacher/artist who draws on practices from A Course in Miracles, Non-Violent Communication, improvisational theater, and contemporary shamanism. Prior to opening CRS he was more active in theater and contemporary dance and had the privilege of performing with many amazing artists at La Mama, HERE, Merce Cunningham Studio, etc.

　　（英文内容来源于：WHITEBOX HARLEM  网址：http://whiteboxnyc.org/event/loy-luo-harlem-other-i/）