【池社新展】JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE个人作品展

新世纪艺术基金会很荣幸的在上海池社空间举办美国费城艺术家Jonathan Lyndon Chase的个人作品展。这是艺术家在中国的首次个展，也是他的首次国际个展。不着痕迹地游走于历史及当代的风格和参照之间，通过扭曲的形象及支离破碎的构图，Chase将人性置于他艺术的最前沿，描绘出一种独特的自我表现形式。他的画作很有力量，象征性的形象突出表现了当代社会中对一个人的身份加以定义时所面临的困难。

 Chase的艺术实践是多元的，包括彩绘、素描、拼贴和雕塑，这些元素通常会在同一作品中同时出现。他作品中描绘的身体和空间不受固定的时间、风格或媒介的限制，埃贡·席勒（Egon Schiele）大胆的表现主义和弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon）惊人的肢体扭曲在他独特的绘画表现与抽象的对话之中能够轻易地共生。

对于黑人形象的运用，Chase的考量是复杂而多方面的。他常常着迷于情感和经验的二元性。他作品中的人物的情绪与他们的环境之间存在的对比非常重要。这样对于“非人格化”的关注引导人们意识到，尤其在黑人群体中，力图将性别认同的不同方面统一起来所经历的挣扎以及社会心理上遭遇的逆境。

从日常生活的经历出发，Chase将空间与性别之间的关系视为社会结构，性别认同受我们的直接环境以及该空间内起支配作用的社会规范影响。碎片化的多维角色被放置在抽象和暧昧不清的背景中，不断弱化既有的室内与室外、私密与公共结构——这些结构强硬地定义传统上男性和女性身体在各种环境中应该发挥的作用。Chase 的作品将我们为了面向外部世界求得生存而包裹的多重身份层层剥去。

关于艺术家

Jonathan Lyndon Chase，1989年出生于美国费城。现居住和工作于费城。获得宾州艺术学院以及费城艺术大学颁发的诸多奖项。2018年Chase获得迈阿密鲁贝尔家族当代艺术基金会艺术家驻留机会。Chase的作品参展经历包括：2018年-2019年鲁贝尔家族收藏当代艺术基金会举办的多次展，2018年陶布曼艺术博物馆，2017年加利福尼亚非洲裔美国人博物馆，2017年费城伍德米尔艺术博物馆。Chase的作品位列于世界各地的许多公共收藏和私人收藏中，包括纽约惠特尼美国艺术博物馆，洛杉矶艺术博物馆，沃克艺术中心，迈阿密当代艺术学院，亚特兰大高等艺术博物馆，纽约布朗克斯艺术博物馆，宾夕法尼亚美术学院，费城德米尔艺术博物馆。

关于池社

“池社”是新世纪当代艺术基金会联合创始人薛冰在上海西岸创办的艺术空间。
“池社”源自张培力、耿建翌等艺术家在1986年创办的艺术团体的名称，旨在提供一个艺术交流互动的平台，空间创办人薛冰先生也借此向艺术家致敬！

New Century Art Foundation (NCAF) is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase at Pond Society, Shanghai. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in China, as well as his first solo presentation internationally. Through contorted figures and fractured compositions that float seamlessly between historical and contemporary styles and references, Chase portrays a form of self-expression that puts human touch at the forefront of his art. His powerful figurative paintings highlight the difficulties faced by defining one’s identity in contemporary society. 

Chase’s practice is a hybrid one, ranging across painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture, often all within the same work. The bodies and spaces depicted in his work are unconstrained to a fixed time, style, or medium, where aspects of Egon Schiele’s bold expressionism and Francis Bacon’s striking physical contortions may easily cohabitate-all expressed in his unique dialogue between representation and abstraction. 

Chase’s engagement with the black figure is complicated and multifaceted. He is often fixated on the duality of emotions and experience. It is important that contrasts exist between the mood of his characters and their environment. This focus on depersonalization brings awareness to the experience of struggling to unite different components of gender identity and psychosocial adversity, especially within the black community.

Drawing from his everyday experiences, Chase examines the relationship between space and gender as social constructs; the ways in which gender identity is affected by our immediate environment and the dominant societal norms that exist within that space. Fragmented, multi-dimensional characters are placed within abstract and ambiguous backdrops, diminishing existing structures that forcefully define how conventionally masculine and feminine bodies are supposed to function in various settings - both indoor and outdoor, intimate and public. Chase’s work disrobes the layers of multiple identity we maintain for the outside world in order to live.

? ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jonathan Lyndon Chase (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chase has received numerous awards from PAFA and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and was the recipient of the 2018 Artist-In-Residence from the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL. Chase has been included in exhibitions at the Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL (2018-2019); Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA (2018); California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2017); and Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA (2017). Chase’s work resides in numerous public and private collections throughout the world including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and The Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 

? ABOUT THE POND SOCIETY

Pond Society is an art space founded by Xue Bing, co-founder of NCAF, and located at the West Bund district of Shanghai. The name of Pond Society derives from an art group founded in 1986 by artists including Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Wang Qiang and Song Ling. The space aims to provide a platform for artistic exchange and interaction, and the founder of the space also hopes to pay tribute to the art group and artists correspondingly.

关于新世纪当代艺术基金会

新世纪当代艺术基金会(NCAF)是由收藏家王兵先生和薛冰先生共同发起的非营利基金会，旨在研究、推动中国当代艺术的发展，它将通过严肃地观察艺术、研究艺术，在现有的艺术生态系统之中为中国当代艺术的发展做一些支持补充性工作，为推广中国当代艺术提供更多更好的平台。

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