May 10 - June 20, 2013 Opening Reception: May 10 / 6-9pm
“Humans Being II is an exhibit that focuses on the experience of disability as explored through contemporary art” – curated by Riva Lehrer and part of the 2013 Bodies of Work Festival. Here's the print I'm showing:
Palitz Gallery, at Syracuse University Lubin House, 11 East 61st Street, New York NY
I'm honored to be the winner of a 2012 Wynn Newhouse Award, established by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation to recognize contemporary artists of excellence who happen to have disabilities. I’m happy to be showing these four recent works in this excellent company.
To view work by all the award winners, and to read our words about the insights disability has given us and how they’ve found expression in our art, I recommend a visit to www.wnewhouseawards.com/Pages/Awards.html
I plan be at the gallery on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 22nd, 3-4:30 pm, for a very informal gallery talk.
Strathmore Galleries
10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD 20852-3224
www.strathmore.org/fineartexhibitions/
Opening reception
Tuesday, February 19, 7:00 - 9:00PM
click to view my 11 pieces in the 'Pulse' show
from a great review of the show in Gazette.net, March 13, 2013:
In the path of Leonardo da Vinci: Where art and science collide
By Claudia Rousseau
Among the other artists represented here, the drawings of Laura Ferguson are among the most striking. Ferguson is currently the artist-in-residence at the NYU School of Medicine where she draws from bones and cadaver dissections in the Anatomy Lab, as well as working with radiology images in 3D Imaging. Her drawings recall the delicacy and passion of Leonardo, as well as his fascination with the body’s visual complexity, its inherent beauty, and its connection to the processes and patterns of nature. Her drawings, like “Dark Twisting Figure” and “Watery Blue-Red Figure” are often layered with a density that draws the viewer and keeps him looking. Grounded in science, her work is imbued with a spirit that can be compared to the great Renaissance master.
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now on view at the MSB Gallery:
June 11 - August 13, 2012
Opening reception Thursday, June 14th, 5-7 pm - please join us
NYU School of Medicine, near the Ehrman Medical Library, 550 First Avenue at 31st Street, New York NY
Click here to preview the works in the show
Coming in November: an exhibit of drawings by the students in my 'Art & Anatomy' drawing seminar, in the same gallery - more info to come.
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http://www.musecpmi.org/currentexhibition.html
The work I’m showing is from a new series of drawings made from medical images: pursuing my fascination with the spine and skeleton, and newly inspired by the brain. I've tried to evoke the shadowy and mysterious quality of an x-ray enhanced with three-dimensionality, the sense of many layers, and the relationship of inside to out.
This new work flows directly from the access I’ve had as artist in residence at the NYU School of Medicine: drawing from anatomical and neuroanatomical specimens, and working in the 3D Imaging Lab with radiology images made for my artistic purposes. These cutting-edge imaging technologies – 3D spiral CT scan for the body and 7-Tesla MRI for the brain – are tools developed for the world of medicine, but in the hands of an artist they can create a different vision of the inner body: anatomically accurate but also reflective of our personal experience of the bodies we inhabit.
Click here for a preview of my new work
(By the way, my image above, that was chosen to announce the show, is one of very few that's not of myself!)
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http://psicoart.cib.unibo.it/article/view/2530 (choose English-language version from menu on upper right)
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