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The exhibition explores links connecting the domains of art and healing. The 25 works displayed include installation pieces, paintings, sculpture, mixed media and works on paper. Aptly, Symptoms is curated by art historian Cynthia Roznoy, manager of the Whitney Museum of American Art in Connecticut and herself a former OB-Gyn nurse.
The artists approach this subject in a variety of personal and evocative ways. New York ophthalmologist Rosalind Kaplan unites objects of her practice with her artwork. Elizabeth Hill, former Philadelphia pediatric nurse, refers to her care giving activities only obliquely, but sees the healing experience as integral with the creation of art. And as New York psychoanalyst Cynthia Stone says, "Art and psychoanalysis have this in common: they are both interested in the unseeable sensed within the seen." Connecticut-based June Ahrens, a former public health nurse, says, "My work is very much about fragility, loss, and dislocation. I worked in the emergency room and with the indigent in the wards. All those things come into play when I make art
Symptoms is organized by OATH, the Organization for Artists Trained in Health Care, a Philadelphia-based international organization of fine artists who are or were health-care practictioners. OATH was founded in 1995 by Diane Dunning, and Pamela Rogow, former museum director of the Academy of the Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and a longtime museum exhibition developer. According to Ms Rogow, the unique confluence of art and medicine in this region has provided a rich base for what is now an international organization.
Johnson & Johnson is generously sponsoring the exhibition tour."
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