Art and Medicine
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Join Artist Laura Ferguson, Artist-in Residence Ted Meyer, and Mark J. Spoonamore, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery, in a Zoom conversation.
Visible skeleton (2000-2004) Gallery
Visible spinal cord/nerves (2011-2020) Gallery
Medical images made for art Gallery
Laura Ferguson has made her own body the subject of her art, finding beauty in a curving spine and exploring the connections between pain, consciousness, and creativity. Laura is Artist in Residence in the Master Scholars Program in Humanistic Medicine at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine, where her innovative drawing class for med students inspired the book Art & Anatomy: Drawings (University of California Medical Humanities Press, 2018). She grounds her work in anatomical reality, drawing from skeletons and cadaver dissections in the Anatomy Lab and from medical images of her own body made for the purpose of art. Laura’s drawings and prints have been shown in galleries and museums in New York and around the country, and featured in major exhibitions on art and medicine, including “Seeing Ourselves” at MuseCPMI in New York, “Humans Being” at the Chicago Cultural Center, and “Beyond the X-ray” at the Boston Museum of Science. Her work is represented in many corporate, private, and public collections including the National Library of Medicine and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
That’s some powerful humanistic art!
It makes me think a bit of the Body Worlds exhibits that have been touring, though of course much more intimate.
Hopefully, the digital experience over Zoom can be just as moving as seeing it in real-life, or at least, close enough!