The Art of Imaging - Online Gallery
At right: Bone scaffolding (trabeculae), Laura Ferguson, 2000, Mixed media. Ferguson uses images of her own body to explore issues at the intersection of art and medicine. Medical imaging technologies create new ways of visualizing our bodies and the world around us. Artists are increasingly incorporating these technologies into their work. The artists featured in this exhibit show us that medical images can have a meaning and appeal beyond the medical one.
(art)n is a group of artists who have been collaborating with scientists and technologists to create works that merge art with science.
Ashley Davidoff, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Radiology, Co-Director of Abdominal Imaging, and Attending in Interventional Radiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.
Laura Ferguson is Professor of Clinical Radiology, worked on the Visible Skeleton Series of pieces for twelve years. By transforming 3-D spiral CT scans of her skeleton into art, Ferguson translated her lived experience with disability into a visual form. Ferguson has produced over fifty pieces for the series.
Steve Miller's portraits stand in sharp contrast to traditional portraits. Rather than focusing on the bodys exterior, Millers portraits reveal the bodys interior, using a variety of medical imaging modalities such as sonography, X-ray, MRI and mammography.
Karen Norberg, M.D. is a Research Associate of the Center for Health Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Much of her art work, like her knitted brain, involves the unexpected use of traditional handcraft techniques.
George Taylor, M.D. is a pediatrician and radiologist. He uses X-ray photography to reveal the inner structures and forms of plants and flowers.
Jud Turner is an artist living in Eugene, Oregon. He uses bones as a starting point for many of his metal sculptures.