Art & Medicine Archive – 2016
March 21, 2016
The Head and the Heart
by Siobhan Hebron
Siobhan Hebron is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA in 2012 with a B.A. in both Art and Art History. She currently works as an artist assistant.
Until two years ago, Hebron’s practice was predominantly painting based and casually investigative of cursory interests. In the summer of 2014, she was diagnosed with brain cancer; this diagnosis triggered a radical change in her practice to a precise and necessary examination of a new reality. Her work has since been in an exploratory period of content as well as medium. Hebron’s work now looks to correlate her personal experience of cancer within a broader dialogue of illness, chronic conditions, disability and ableism, and the sick female body. Her work engages in feminist social practice, directly embracing community and collaboration, and functions within the idea that a radically honest dialogue is needed to change the socio-cultural perception of health and illness.
Siobhan’s exhibit at Keck Gallery features work from several series documenting her experience with chemo, images and text from past performances, drawings, and a new, large scale public participatory work.