Art & Medicine Archive – 2020
November 20, 2020
“Coming to Know: An Artist Investigates Her Own Unusual Anatomy
by Laura Ferguson
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.
Event Recording
September 9, 2020
Dying and Yet We Live On
by Dylan Mortimer
Dylan Mortimer’s art draws on his lifelong experience with Cystic Fibrosis. Diagnosed at 3 months old, the artist received a double lung transplant as an adult and creates works about his health and spiritual beliefs.
Event Recording
February 6, 2020
Trust in the Idea of Death
by Janice Grinsell
Janice Grinsell’s large format black and white photos look at the multiple intersections of cancer as a diagnosis, mortality as a strong possibility, and hope as necessity.