Art and Medicine
Hoyt Gallery, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 5:00-8:00 p.m.
Artists Jane Szabo and J. Fredric May share their unique visions of people and faces. Both Szabo and May have chosen to use photography to document their perceptions of the outside world, compromised by facial blindness and stroke respectively.
Jane Szabo is a Los Angeles based fine art photographer with an MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Szabo investigates issues of self and identity. Using self-portraiture and still life as a vehicle to share stories from her life, her work merges her love for fabrication and materials, with conceptual photography.
J. Fredric May suffered a major stroke during open heart surgery in 2012 leaving him legally blind and subject to vivid visual hallucinations. This life event changed his artistic vision, opening up an entirely new visual style. Using a data corruption software, May recreates fragmented, blurry images as archival pigment prints that mimic the interrupted brain activity he experienced firsthand.
Additional works by Tylar Ard, Andrea Bañuelos Mota, Alice Liu, Divya Patel, Kristine Ravina, MD., James Stanis, and Kella Vangsness.
“Compromised Perception” Art Viewing & Discussion with the artists, Dr. Helena Chui, Chair of Neurology, and Ted Meyer took place on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at noon. A community reception washeld at the Gallery on April 19, 2018 at 5 – 8pm.