how art, medicine can converge
Works by a current student at the School of Art and two of its alumni will be on display in "Foreign Bodies," a New Haven exhibit featuring 16 artists who fold medical technology -- as either subject or medium -- into their work.
In conjunction with the exhibit, subtitled "art, medicine, technology," the Program for Humanities in Medicine at Yale will hold a symposium to bring the artists together with University physicians and others for a discussion on the nature of creativity in medicine and art.
The exhibit at untitled (space), 220 College St., will feature photographs by Tim Davis, a graduate student
Davis photographs sculptural details of architectural sites. The images in this exhibit focus on Yale-New Haven Hospital. His work was recently featured in Blind Spot Magazine and the New York Now 2000 show at the Museum of the City of New York.
Chamy, a native of Haiti now living in New Haven, brings mortality statistics to life in his interactive Web project. A recipient of Yale's Alexei Brodovitch Prize for Excellence in Graphic Design, he now teaches media at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Rees, a sculptor, uses rapid prototype technology to create interior forms of the human body. He was included in the 1995 Whitney Biennial and has shown extensively since then.
Among the other works on view are paintings by Suzanne Anker investigating the semiotics of the genetic code; a sculptural self-portrait by Justine Cooper that consists of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) views of her body mounted on plexiglass sheets; electroluminescent pieces revealing marked-up images of bodies created by St. Raphael's Hospital physician Mark Depman; and creations by Catherine Wagner, who uses medical imaging devices to explore the qualities of cells that form to become an embryo.
Yale physicians Dr. Irwin Braverman, professor of dermatology, and Thomas Duffy, professor of internal medicine (hematology), will take part in a discussion on creativity in art and medicine during the Program for Humanities in Medicine symposium on Sunday, Oct. 22, 1-5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Jane Ellen Hope Building, 315 Cedar St.
Duffy will moderate the discussion, which will include artists Davis, Anker and Depman, as well as painter and sculptor Eve Laramee. Also taking part in the discussion will be Linda Friedlander, curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art. Students from the Yale Schools of Nursing and Medicine will participate in panel discussions following the presentations.
The exhibition and symposium are free and open to the public.
The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established in 1983 by Dr. Howard Spiro, professor emeritus in internal medicine at Yale, to bring attention to the links between the arts and humanities and the practice of medicine.
Untitled (space), a program of Artspace, is supported by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. For further information on the exhibition or symposium, call (203) 772-2709.
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in photography at the School of Art; an interactive web project by artist and designer Dimitry Said Chamy
'97 M.F.A.; and sculpted interior forms of the human body by Michael Rees '89 M.F.A. Curated by Marianne Bernstein, the exhibition will open on Saturday, Oct. 21, with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at the gallery, and will run through Dec. 2. The opening coincides with Yale's open house in celebration of its tercentennial.
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