新展预告 卡萝?普鲁莎：奇异吸引子 上海·外滩

卡萝?普鲁莎Carol Prusa (美国, b.1956)毕业于美国德雷克大学(Drake University)艺术硕士，主修绘画，现生活与创作于美国北卡罗来纳州。普鲁莎传承文艺复兴时期的银针笔绘画技法，钻研天文物理学，诠释宇宙演化的混沌相互作用，经由银针笔的精密与洗炼灰阶，以大规模银线描绘，独树一格地融入雕塑形式，表达宇宙奇异之美创作闻名。获得SECAC艺术成就奖。作品受邀备受国际尊崇的美国艺术暨文学学会 (American Academy of Arts and Letters)邀请展，创作收录于多本银针笔历史书册，并获全美十数间美术馆永久收藏，包括迈阿密佩雷斯美术馆(Perez Museum of Art, Miami), 纽约美术与设计博物馆（Museum of Arts and Design, New York), 特尔费尔艺术博物馆（Telfair Museums）、弗朗西·古德和大卫·霍尔维茨收藏，以及艺术与科学博物馆（Museum of Arts and Sciences）等，并于多个包括博卡拉顿艺术博物馆(Boca Raton Museum of Art)，西棕榈滩博物馆等举办大型个展。

科学艺术。普鲁莎Prusa自述, “我寻求传达看不见但能感受到的振动，包括亿万年前的回声。像科学家一样，我寻找解释我们所处位置的新方法，并实现对世界的最完整理解。”十岁从“大爆炸”理论惊奇开始，普鲁莎Prusa热衷学习微生物学、病理学，数学和天文物理学，思考事物为什么如此复杂和令人不知所措，但我们的呼吸却感觉自然、简单和平静？她向科学寻求答案，然而科学并没有完全的答案，她发现通过隐喻和诗歌结合艺术与视觉的美更能得到满足，将科学和艺术视为找到自己在宇宙位置的一种方式。普鲁莎Prusa最近的研究，包括天文宇宙生成以及生命起源演变理论，其中“奇异吸引子”(Strange Attractors，在数学中吸引子是一组状态，动态系统趋向于演化，如果吸引子具有分形结构并且是混沌的，物理学则称为奇异吸引子），以及“弗里德曼方程式”（Friedmann Equations，在一般相对论的框架内，描述宇宙的均匀和各向同性模型中空间扩展的一组方程式），利用二者交互对比进行艺术性转化。与弗里德曼方程式不同，她的作品充满了希望和可能性，弗里德曼方程式虽是美丽的，但对普鲁莎Prusa来说并不完整，因为它们没有解释生命与如何存在，她的创作试图将活在这些理念矩阵中是什么感觉，带着欢愉的呼吸将其视觉化，在看似随机事件的混乱中，需要来到身边的人事最终会来到，与有些人的相遇像诗般地运作，就像奇异吸引子一样，生活是奇异、惊讶、复杂、美丽、混乱、不随机却具有韧性，混沌的交互作用。

银针笔(Silverpoint)。兴盛于文艺复兴时期，这个古老的技法因描绘细腻的特性而受达文西(Leonardo da Vinci)、拉斐尔(Raffaello Santi)等大师所喜爱。文艺复兴时期切尼诺.切尼尼(Cennino Cennini)所编著的绘画技术论著《艺术之书》(Il Libro dell’Arte)中也提及，中世纪的画室学徒必须精通银针笔以后，才能着手学习油画，可见此技法之高超。受文艺复兴圆顶教堂绘画的启发，普鲁莎Prusa 开始埋首银针笔绘画研究，融合了对天文、自然科学，以及宇宙间神秘未知的着迷，普鲁莎Prusa将古老的银针笔技法，结合雕刻树脂、玻璃纤维、金属箔甚至是LED灯光等当代媒材，使我们得以想像宇宙初始的混沌，根据创作复杂程度与规模，一件作品可能需耗费数千小时才得以完成。早期以半弧形体，后逐渐展现360度球体功力，近期转向平面画作创新。无尽的想像其实皆经精密计算及布局，每件作品象征已知与未知的交触面，平衡与反覆的图形陈述宇宙运转的逻辑。美国艺评家Margherita Dessanay评论,“卡萝·普鲁莎Carol Prusa 使用艺术来研究宇宙的无限奇迹，也在她的当代作品为宇宙能量创造了新视野。”“未知”虽然让人却步，却也同时使人期待，普鲁莎Prusa的银针笔绘画诠释宇宙演化核心的混沌相互作用，宇宙间无形的力量，也得以呈现在我们眼前。

来源 Source｜2024｜160x200cm｜石墨、不锈钢、丙烯、画布 Graphite, stainless steel and acrylic on canvas

2024年蓝骑士艺术Bluerider ART上海·外滩重磅新展“卡萝?普鲁莎：奇异吸引子” （Carol Prusa：Strange Attractors）-中国首个展，呈现多达15件从半球体到平面全新创作。挑高展厅中一幅长达九米卷轴画《奇异吸引子》提到一个人体的脉轮，或是流向所有外在的能量线。在卷轴的另一面，艺术家作诗谈论活着的感觉，以及宇宙的弗里德曼方程式，来传达宇宙演化中的混沌交互，人类存在的敬畏，她寻求给薄薄的空间以形式，唤起黑暗物质既包围又联系在一起，生活于这奇异之美中的欢愉感。另一组《未知》是一系列四幅作品，描述了第一次引发我们存在可能性的奇异点《破裂世界》，到原子和分子的出现，这是对所有可能性的挑战，结果导致了生命《粒子没有目的》，以及我们所在的本地星系和银河系的开放《繁衍浓缩管》在局部星系中的位置，第四幅《概率的解聚》是未来，暗示着扩张后，我们可能会反弹并在另一次大爆炸中回弹，或者不会…。普鲁莎Prusa将这些优雅的科学方程式与自己的写作绘画结合，这项创作是对艺术家核心理念 “万物理论”的贡献。另最新手作一本手风琴形式折叠于丝绸精装内的艺术书《奇异吸引子》，拉开为长达2米的卷轴，当悬挂于墙面上时，优美如诗般的艺术图腾为观众建立了一座进入她世界的桥梁，向世人展示在争议的宇宙观念中，在呼吸和作画时所感受到的与所有人的美丽和相互联系，正如玛丽·奥利弗Mary Oliver在《上游》(Upstream)中美丽地写道,“艺术的关注点在边缘，以及如何将边缘之外的无形，转化为有形形式。”(Its (arts) concern is the edge, and the making of a form out of the formlessness that is beyond the edge.)

?????奇异吸引子 ?Strange Attractors｜?2024｜?15?2.5x914.5cm｜石墨、丙烯、合成纸、铝制挂杆Graphite, acrylic on Yupo paper with aluminum hanging bar??

卡萝?普鲁莎：奇异吸引子-中国首个展

Carol Prusa：Strange Attractors

媒体日

2024.5.31（五） 2pm-5pm

开幕日

2024.6.1（六）

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展期 : 2024.6.1-8.5

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Academic Employment 

2021- Professor Emeritus

1999-2021 Florida AtlanPc University, Boca Raton, Florida, Professor Visual Arts 

1986-1998 Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Assistant Professor Visual Arts 

Selected Solo and Curated Exhibitions 

2024 Strange Attractors, Bluerider ART, Shanghai, China

2024 Southeast Contemporary,Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA

2024 Golden Invitational, Golden Foundation, New Berlin, New York

2024 Florida Prize, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

2024 Disrupting the Grid, Gentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, New York

2023 Homeland Universe, Bluerider ART, London

2023 Bookbound, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL.

2022 Porous Boundaires, the Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

2022 Body Parts, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire

2021 Mental Space, Bluerider ART, Shanghai

2021 Tenacity, 5-person exhibition, Chautauqua Institution, New York
2021 Unknowing, Ann Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, Palm Beach

2020 Many Moons, Manifest Prize solo exhibition, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2020 Spooky Action, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI

2019 DarkLight, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA

2019 Scale the Wall, presented large-scale projection installation “Folded Worlds” in a three person show at the Sonshan Creative and Cultural park, Taipei, Taiway – sponsored by Bluerider ART

2018 Carol Prusa – Silverpoint Drawing, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA

2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC

2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC

2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia

2018 Silver Lining; Contemporary Works in Silverpoint, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi, USA

2017 Liminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA

2017 Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland

2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, USA

2017 Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA

2017 Looking Back, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA

2016 Infinite Cosmos, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

2016 Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA

2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA

2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2016 Worlds, Bascomb Museum, Western North Carolina, USA

2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2015 University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA

2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Georgia, USA

2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum, USA 

2015 Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera), Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA

2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York, USA 

2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA

2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings (Curated by Bernice Steinbaum), Miami, USA

2014 Silver Universe, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan 

2014 Entanglement, Sarasota Art Center, Florida, USA      

2014 Fearful Symmetry, Florida Atlantic University, Zadok Gallery, Miami, USA 

2014 Mixed Matrix, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee, USA

2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami, USA 

2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA 

2014 Selected Artists, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida, USA

2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA

2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania, USA 

2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA

2013 GRAM Selects, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan, USA

2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA 

2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA 

2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA

2012 Empire of Things, University Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA 

2012 Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair, Telfair Art Museum, Jepson Center’s Steward Gallery, Georgia, USA 

2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, USA

2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida, USA 

2010 Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior Curator), Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA

2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut, USA 

2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Maine, USA 

2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA 

2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Chicago, USA 

2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA

Public Collections 

Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, USA

Appalachian State University, Catherine Smith Gallery, North Carolina, USA

Bienes Center for the Literary Art, Broward County Library, Florida, USA

Central Missouri State University, President's Gallery, Missouri, USA

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA

Drake University, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Iowa, USA

Emaar Hospitality Group, Dubai, UAE

Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana, USA

Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA

Iowa State University, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa, USA

Iowa State University, Margaret Sloss Women's Center, Iowa, USA

Iowa State University, Memorial Union, Iowa, USA

Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA

Kohler Company, Wisconsin, USA

Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA

Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA

Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA

Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA 

Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA

University of Florida – Public Art, Wellness Center, Florida, USA

University of Florida – Public Art, NIMET Nanotechnology, USA

University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA

University of Oregon Special Collections, University Library, Oregon, USA

University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Wyoming, USA

U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua

Wartburg College, Iowa, USA

Noted Private Collections

Agnes Gund Foundation

Francie Bishop Good Collection/Girl’s Club 

Time Equities Inc – Francis Greenberger Collection

Selected Honors 

2024 Arts AVL - Buncombe County ArPst Support Grant ($3000) 

2023 Golden FoundaPon ArPst Residency, New York                                              

2020 Selected through peer review (20 panelists) for the Manifest Prize ($5000 award and solo show at non-profit Manifest Gallery in CincinnaP “to reward, showcase....the most excepPonal artwork being made today”

2020 Selected for Scientific Delirium Madness; a month-long residency, public and academic forums, published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal published by MIT Press. This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (6 artists and 6 scientists)

2019 Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia

2019 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (Dec. 2019)

2018 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship

2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Achievement Award at 2017 national conference,    Columbus, Ohio, USA

2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship

2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy

2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational (Received purchase award for museum collection), New York, USA

2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer 

2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship 

2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship 

2013 Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York, USA 

2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist 

2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County 

2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency 

2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic University 

2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists 

2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship 

2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award
2007 Included in: Miami Contemporary Artists, ed., Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow Foreword by Elisa Turner, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007; 288 pp.

2007 Art In State Buildings Program – public art contract for the Nanotechology Building, University of Florida - Gainesville

2005 University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, FAU

2004 SECAC Artist Fellowship Award, Southeastern College Art Conference

2003 Teacher of the Year, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, FAU

2003 University Researcher of the Year, Assistant Professor Level, FAU

2003 Corporeal - Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by and exhibited at the American Museum of Arts and Design, NYC and the Museum of Angewandte Kunst - Frankfurt

2002 State of Florida Artist Fellowship

2002 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists 

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