Tag: Gallery
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Fertility/Futility
Raina CowanChicago, Illinois, USA Artist’s statementWhile undergoing treatment for infertility and recurrent pregnancy loss, I became fascinated by the inner workings of the body. I made delicate watercolors: meditations on the elusive process of conception. Other pieces emerged: a cardboard marionette whose flayed heart is on the verge of bursting into flames; assemblage boxes containing…
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The fisherman’s lasagna: A love story about prescriptive photomontage and anorexia
Nancy GershmanChicago, Illinois, USALauren Lazar SternPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Can Sally,1 a 32-year old struggling with anorexia, also be a responsible student nurse on an eating disorder unit? The answer is never under-estimate the power of denial.2 The very qualities that masked Sally’s obsessive thinking about fat and the next meal were just what the job…
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Normal – Hang in There – The Monster and other work
Monika Filipiak Peszek About two years after my daughter was born, I was depressed. I didn’t want to go anywhere or do anything. I could feel myself growing heavier and heavier, and angrier and angrier. I was mad at my husband all the time. I blamed him for the way I was feeling. I was…
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Stomach acid dream
Mia BrownellNew Haven, USA My work is a meditation on the genetic makeup of food, inviting the viewer to celebrate life in its most fundamental state. By intertwining clusters of ripe fruit in meandering structures suspended in space, I embrace a fusion of traditional still-life techniques and scientific models of proteins. The paintings express a…
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Selections from Redefining the Medical Artist
Meena MalhotraChicago, Illinois, USA Redefining the Medical Artist is an exhibition of work by the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Biomedical Visualization program. It was held at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago from August 7th to October 16th, 2009. The works featured in this show…
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Redefining the medical artist
Meena MalhotraChicago, Illinois, USA Medical illustration is a long-standing tradition that dates back to the sixteenth-century anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius. In his preface to his book, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body), Vesalius commented on the value of images and dissection in learning anatomy: How much pictures aid the…
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The art of Laura Olear
Laura OlearChicago, Illinois, USA Viruses and Bacteria series Artist’s statementWe live in an age of profound advances in health and medicine, yet there has never been a wider gap between objective and perceptive health. I am interested in the ways in which many people dissociate themselves from their bodies and health, while others focus fixatedly…
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Viruses and bacteria series
Laura OlearChicago, Illinois, USA Artist’s statement We live in an age of profound advances in health and medicine, yet there has never been a wider gap between objective and perceptive health. I am interested in the ways in which many people dissociate themselves from their bodies and health, while others focus fixatedly on them. The…
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Self-inflicted
Laura OlearChicago, Illinois, USA Artist’s statement This series of mixed media drawings is abstracted from biological imagery. They explore issues of control over one’s own health in the form of “self-inflicted” conditions or diseases. Obesity, anorexia, smoking, tanning, excessive alcohol consumption, and self-mutilation can all result in a variety of potentially life-threatening conditions. One could…
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The Triple A
Kyle AmberCoral Gables, Florida, United States The curvature of the human body has piqued the interest of artists for centuries. However, the beauty of such shapes and lines should not be confined to the countryside, as is typically depicted in popular compositions. In the medical field, we have the privilege of witnessing some of nature’s…