a documentary directed by Peter Barton | the whole film (running time 15 mins.) as well as a short clip showing the floating colors process, can be viewed here

a special section of Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, edited by Alice Domurat Dreger, PhD (Johns Hopkins U. Press, Spring 2004) | with the perspectives of Alice Dreger, Dr. David Polly, Dr. J.Bruce Beckwith, Cassandra Aspinall, and Laura Ferguson

same article as above, viewable as PDF

by Felice Aull, Art Annotation in the Literature, Arts, & Medicine Database | “These arresting and beautiful drawings of a woman's body through which the interior skeleton is visible represent the art and body of Laura Ferguson…”

by Laura Ferguson, in the Literature, Arts and Medicine Blog, October 21, 2007 | “Can a deformed body be beautiful? Yes, through an artist's eyes - and I believe art can help medicine to broaden its vision, and embrace a new aesthetic of the body.…”

NYU Langone Medical Center's "News and Views," May-June 2009 | "This is my spine," says Laura Ferguson, pointing to … one of her luminous paintings. Ferguson, the Master Scholars Program's first artist-in-residence…"

Dino Samartzis, DSc, PhD, MSc, MRIPH, and Paul M. Arnold, MD, The Spine Journal 8, 2008 [1044-1046] | “It is her spine condition’s disharmony and its interplay amid the female silhouette that captivates viewers in a dialogue between pain and beauty…"

same article as above, viewable as PDF

by Kari Neely, in “Bodies: Physical & Abstract,” Michigan Feminist Studies, Fall 2005-Spring 2006 | “The Visible Skeleton Series confronts the illusionary division of the interiority and exteriority of the body…”

by Alla Katsnelson, Yale Medicine Chronicle, Autumn 2005

Access Living, Chicago | “The resulting works are dreamy, sensual images of the disabled female body. Ferguson uses medical imagery to reveal the mystery of the body, turning clinical language upside down and almost literally inside out.”

The Bibliophile Weblog, June 2009 | and linked, on this site, to another post: “Straightened Out: The Artwork of Laura Ferguson, Body Politics, and Gender”

The New York Times, February 5, 2002

Museum of Science Boston | "The artists featured in this exhibit show us that medical images can have a meaning and appeal beyond the medical one."

"Kevles shows how the development of the X-ray and subsequent medical imaging technologies caused deep changes in how people thought about their bodies – manifested in the work of artists from Picasso to Francis Bacon, and including Laura Ferguson."

Harvard U. Press, 2004 | "“the book calls into question assumptions about anatomy and normality, and transforms our understanding of how we are all intricately and inextricably joined" [from book jacket]

relevant book pages, viewable as PDF

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2003 | cover art by Laura Ferguson