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Ivory Gate Gallery 上海象牙门画廊

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Ivory Gate Gallery is founded in 2023 in Chicago, USA, expanded to Shanghai in2024. The name "Ivory Gate" is inspired by Homer's epic "The Odyssey"symbolising the intersection of dreams and reality, and metaphoricallyrepresenting humanity's exploration of the unknown and pursuit of hope. Thisspirit resonates with the Chinese philosophical concept of "unity of knowledgeand action"-whether it is Odysseus's voyage or the Chinese literati's ideal ol"reading ten thousand books and travelling ten thousand miles," both reflect acuriosity about the world and a desire for self-transcendence. Drawing from thisinspiration, we are committed to finding resonance and dialogue betweenEastern and Western cultures through contemporarv artShanghai's lvory Gate Gallery is grounded in China while embracing a globalperspective. we focus on high-quality, thought-provoking artistic creationscollaborating with both domestic and international artists who possess uniqueaesthetics and potential, Our selections reflect not only the artist's emotions butalso the spirit of the times, With a dual focus on Eastern and Western artistic anohumanistic concerns, Shanghai's lvory Gate Gallery aims to build an openinternational art ecosystem, promoting innovative practices in local art withinthe context of global contemporary art trends. Within the lvory Gate, the powerof art transcends geographical and cultural barriers, creating a space where Eastand West converge, and serving as a bridge connecting the world to the future.

2023年"象牙门画廊"开始于美国芝加哥; 2024年，画廊扩展至上海。画廊的名字源自荷马史诗《奥德赛》，"象牙门"象征着梦境与现实的交汇，隐喻着人类对未知的探索与对希望的追寻。这种精神与中国文化中"知行合一"的哲学不谋而合--无论是奥德修斯的远航，还是中国文人"读万卷书，行万里路"的理想，都体现了对世界的好奇与对自我超越的渴望。我们以此为灵感，致力于在当代艺术中寻找东西方文化的共鸣与碰撞。

作为一家立足中国、辐射全球的画廊，我们聚焦于高质量、富有思想深度的艺术创作，与国内外具有独特审美与潜力的艺术家合作。每一件精心遴选的作品，既体现艺术家的情感，也反映时代精神。我们相信，艺术不仅是视觉的表达，更是思想的载体，能够跨越地域与文化的界限，激发深层次的对话与思考。上海象牙门画廊扎根中国拥抱全球。我们以中西方的双重焦点关注艺术与人文，构建一个开放的国际艺术生态，在全球当代艺术的潮流中推动本土艺术的创新实践。在象牙门内，艺术的力量超越了地理与文化的藩篱，成为汇聚中西方的空间，连接世界与未来的桥梁。

Artist & Founder ：Anastasiia Vasileva

艺术家及创始⼈: Anastasiia Vasileva

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A multidisciplinary artist, Stasias Lev holds a Master’s degree in Graphic Design from St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design (Russia) and a Master’s degree from Shanghai University of Technology. She is the recipient of the Women of the Year 2023 "Art Entertainer" award. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Stasias has also lived and worked in Shanghai and Chicago, drawing artistic inspiration from cross-cultural encounters. Active both as a creator and curator, she founded her eponymous art space Stasias Gallery in Chicago. As an artist and founder, Stasias’s practice is rooted in a dialectical exploration of contradiction and order. Her upbringing cultivated a unique sensitivity — an ability to distil translucent beauty from chaos and poetic wisdom from the unknown. Her work centres on the ephemerality of human emotions, the fragility of existence, and the urgency of life, employing abstract language to interrogate the essence of “freedom”: she contends that true liberty lies not in the right to survive, but in the courage to choose, love, and thrive. The complexity of human destiny, she believes, ultimately unravels through a series of “right choices”. Stasias’s artistic practice is a dialogue between self and world. She transforms intimate emotions — anger, desire, compassion — into visual epics on canvas, each brushstroke a mirror of her psyche. By layering and deconstructing material textures and linguistic symbols, she deliberately blurs the boundaries between appearance and truth. Her use of lengthy titles for wordless works invites plural interpretations, while the dissolution of “meaning” echoes her central thesis: art requires no narrative; it is, by nature, a meditation on abstraction and materiality.

多学科艺术家，拥有俄罗斯圣彼得堡技术与设计大学平面设计硕士学位及上海工业大学硕士学位，2023年荣获女性“艺术艺人”年度奖项（Women of the Year 2023 "Art Entertainer"）。生于俄罗斯圣彼得堡的Stasias，曾旅居上海与芝加哥，在跨文化碰撞中寻找艺术灵感。她以多元身份活跃于创作与策展领域，并于芝加哥创立首个同名艺术空间Stasias Gallery。作为艺术家与创始人，Stasias的创作根植于对矛盾与秩序的辩证思考。她的成长经历赋予其独特的感知力——从混沌中捕捉透明之美，从未知中提炼智慧的诗意。其作品聚焦人类情感的瞬时性、存在的脆弱与生命的紧迫感，以抽象语言探讨“自由”的本质：她坚信，真正的自由并非生存的权利，而是选择、热爱与自我绽放的勇气。人类命运的复杂性，终将在一次次“正确的选择”中显现脉络。Stasias的艺术实践是一场自我与世界的对话。她将愤怒、欲望、悲悯等私密情感转化为画布上的视觉史诗，每一笔触都是内心的镜像。通过材质肌理、语言符号的层叠与解构，她刻意模糊表象与真实的边界，以冗长标题为无字作品赋予多重解读。这种对“意义”的消解，恰恰呼应了她的核心命题：艺术无需叙事，它本就是抽象与物质性的沉思。