【环球云视 记者Vivien 纽约报道】2026年5月6日晚，华裔艺术家吕美（Aurelia Lu）纽约驻留艺术展《圖像的起源》（The Roots of Vision）在纽约法拉盛角声艺术中心（Herald Art Center，132-62 Pople Ave, Flushing, NY 11355）盛大开幕。开幕式于当晚5时至8时举行，嘉宾云集，现场气氛热烈。展览将持续至2026年5月30日，每周一至周六对外开放。
图像的时代，寻根之旅
策展人郝青松博士在开幕式上介绍了角声艺术中心的新空间及本次展览的策展结构。他援引近百年前海德格尔的先知式预言——“世界将被把握为图像”——指出，当”图像时代”已成为我们这个时代最显然的概念之时，图像却在”虚拟真实”与”景观社会”中迷失，遗忘了海德格尔另一个深刻的追问：“艺术的起源”。吕美作为角声艺术中心新空间的首位驻留艺术家，正是以此次展览回应图像的当代困境与精神危机。
郝青松博士指出，吕美的作品呈现出强烈的极简风格，但她并非停留于极简主义的形式再现。极简主义的图像本已跨越形式主义现代艺术与观念形态当代艺术之间的鸿沟，内在追问艺术的不可见真理；然而波普化的大众当代艺术将图像沦为”能指”的虚拟真实，这一追问被彻底遗忘。吕美在极简图像中重新唤醒”图像的起源”，她的作品因问题与回应之间的差异，成为一种作为”所指”的第三种图像。
两条主线，三个单元
展览结构分为两条主线、三个单元。作为旅美华裔艺术家，吕美长期往返于中美之间，形同客旅，始终面对身份的叩问：我是谁？我从哪里来？要到哪里去？展厅一侧，她以艺术语言叩问人类文明之门——埃及、希腊、罗马、长城、耶路撒冷，以至海市蜃楼与巴别塔，绚烂而多元，却无所归依。展厅另一侧，则是一座又一座名为”圣山”的朝圣之旅：从黑白二分的分别为圣，至最终抵达散发金色光芒的圣山脚下，宁静而笃定。
在此次驻留期间，吕美也完成了《主日》（Sunday）系列的最后一件作品——七件十字架装置的收官之作。如同创世第七天，“天地万物都造齐了，神歇了祂一切的工，就安息了”（创世记2:1-2）。世界始于安息，也将归于安息。策展人以此作结：因着追问”图像的起源”，人生虽仍是客旅，却有丰盛的异象。
艺术家简介
吕美，2000年移民美国芝加哥，曾开设画廊；2012年移居纽约，重返职业艺术家身份；2014年起往返于纽约与北京之间生活与创作。其作品灵感源于逾二十年的中外旅程与对生命的感悟，聚焦”文明”、“宇宙”、“生命”，以及东西方文化影响下的内心冲突与身份认知。创作形式涵盖单色绘画、当代水墨、综合材料与装置。作品曾参加巴黎、香港、迈阿密、巴塞尔等国际艺博会，并被博物馆及私人机构收藏。
著名纽约艺术家郑连杰在开幕式上盛赞吕美此次归来，称本次展览是”吕美作为成熟艺术家绽放的五月花”，并高度评价郝青松博士的策展主题”图像的起源”或将成为纽约华人当代艺术家的重要起点。
The Roots of Vision: Aurelia Lu New York Artist Residency Exhibition Opens in New York
On the evening of May 6, 2026, Chinese-American artist Aurelia Lu’s New York residency exhibition, “The Roots of Vision,” opened at the Herald Art Center in Flushing, New York (132-62 Pople Ave, Flushing, NY 11355). The opening reception ran from 5 to 8 pm, drawing a distinguished gathering of guests. The exhibition continues through May 30, 2026, open Monday through Saturday.
An Age of Images — In Search of Origins
Curator Dr. Qingsong Hao opened the evening by introducing the Herald Art Center’s new gallery space and the conceptual framework of the exhibition. Drawing on Heidegger’s prophetic declaration from nearly a century ago — “The world will be grasped as an image” — Dr. Hao observed that while the “age of the image” has become the defining concept of our time, the image has, amidst virtual reality and the society of the spectacle, forgotten another of Heidegger’s most profound inquiries: “The Origin of Art.” As the first artist-in-residence of the Center’s new space, Aurelia Lu responds to this contemporary crisis through her exhibition.
Dr. Hao noted that while Lu’s work bears the hallmarks of Minimalism, it transcends mere formal reproduction. Minimalist imagery had once bridged formalist modern art and conceptual contemporary art, intrinsically questioning the invisible truths of art — yet Pop-influenced mass culture reduced the image to a virtual signifier, and that deeper inquiry was thoroughly forgotten. Within Minimalist forms, Lu reawakens “The Roots of Vision,” and her works — by virtue of the difference between question and response — become a third type of image: an image as signified.
Two Narratives, Three Chapters
The exhibition unfolds along two main thematic threads and three chapters. As a Chinese-American artist perpetually in transit between China and the United States, Lu has long confronted the questions of a nomadic existence: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? One side of the gallery sees her knocking on the doors of civilization — Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Great Wall, Jerusalem, the mirage, the Tower of Babel — dazzling in its diversity, yet without a final resting place. The other side presents a pilgrimage of “holy mountains,” ascending from a black-and-white world of sacred and profane toward the foot of a golden, radiant peak.
During her residency, Lu also completed the final piece of her Sunday series — the seventh and last of seven cross installations. Like the seventh day of creation, “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array… God rested from all his work” (Genesis 2:1–2). The world began in rest, and to rest it shall return.
Prominent New York artist Zheng Lianjie offered warm congratulations at the opening, hailing the exhibition as “the Mayflower of Aurelia Lu’s blossoming as a mature artist,” and suggested that Dr. Hao’s curatorial theme may mark an important new point of departure for Chinese contemporary artists working in New York.
“The Roots of Vision” remains on view through May 30, 2026.
展期 Duration：2026年5月6日—5月30日（周一至周六）
地址 Address：Herald Art Center, 132-62 Pople Ave, Flushing, NY 11355
策展人 Curator：郝青松 Qingsong Hao
主办 Organizer：Herald Art Center 角声艺术中心
