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Andy Golub, the founder of NYC Bodypainting Day, painted a model at the event’s 10th and final installment on Sunday at Union Square Park Nwe York.

Wearing Paint Instead of Clothes on the Streets of New York. Naked bodies of all shapes and sizes became artists’ canvases at a public art exhibition.

Andy Golub, a New York-based body painter, remembered the day when he was painting Fredi Grieshaber nine years ago. Grieshaber, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, was just notified that day she had very little time left to live.

Golub started body painting about 15 years ago. Body painting has helped him build connections with people through art because it is an active exchange of energy and communication between him and the models. Golub paints in diverse forms. Most of the time, he paints models individually. His models are at different life stages and from a variety of backgrounds – many are people without any modeling experience, artistic or commercial.

In 2017, Golub created his non-profit, Human Connection Arts. It’s a platform for him to connect hundreds of people together who share the same values. The non-profit sponsors the annual NYC Bodypainting Day, during which Golub goes out to the streets and parks in New York City, such as Times Square, Union Square Park and Central Park. Golub, at the event, paints people who are willing to get naked in public. The NYC Bodypainting day takes place annually in outdoor areas such as Union Square Park, Times Square and Central Park. Last year, the ninth event featured 60 models who were painted by 40 artists in public at Union Square Park, with music and a crowd of people watching Golub paint the models.

It took a while for the public to accept the kind of art Golub does. In the summer of 2011, Golub painted two women, fully naked, in Times Square. A few minutes after the models took off their underwear, one got arrested by the New York City Police Department(NYPD). Golub was also arrested and forced to spend 25 hours in the New York City jail. Since nudity for artistic purposes is legal in New York City, the model eventually reached a $15,000 settlement with the city with the help of Ron Kuby, a civil rights lawyer.

The experience of being arrested helped Golub amplify his message that nudity is not disgraceful – it allows people to express themselves and connect with others in a genuine and deep way. Nudity is people exposing who they are, and the social norms do not always provide people with a space to explore that, he said. “Spending a night in jail is nothing for me compared to the opportunity to be able to have a voice,” Golub said. The public spaces allow him to make his body paintings accessible to people that are not aware of his ideas.

The naked body painting is not sexual to models either. “Body painting pictures are not sexual,” Grieshaber said in the video. “I’m a piece of artwork that just keeps evolving.”

Golub also does group painting, in which he selects 10 to 20 models and gathers them together. Under his direction, dozens of models cuddle, sometimes pile, together to form a giant canvas for him to paint on.

Golub’s indoor Human Canvas project is a different experience for models because it is both private and interactive. Before starting to paint, Golub asks models to lie down and get close to one another until they form a giant canvas, with their body shapes barely recognized. Different from his individual paintings, all his creative ideas are based on the whole piece of canvas. Even though models sometimes only have a drop of orange on their toes, they are all indispensable to the big picture.

“It’s both a physical as well as a metaphorical metamorphosis,” he said.

Golub said he believed his body painting helps models to find their true selves. Amanda Jane, a part-time model, said that during her earlier modeling experience, she sometimes felt like a product because she could be easily replaced. However, working with Golub, she felt the importance of being herself rather than an objectified model to fulfill artists’ needs. Golub said that she was a well-appreciated, unique piece of art.

Initially, Golub studied finance at college but later chose to pursue art. “I didn’t enjoy being something other than myself,” Golub said.

“I, maybe, have the most blessed life that a person could ever ask for,” Golub said, becoming emotional. “People have reached out to me over 100 times, saying how I changed their lives, so I don’t really know much better you can do.”

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