Gallery of ARTFul Medicine
The Gallery of ARTFul Medicine showcases medically themed contemporary art within the unique context of a medical center. Artists are encouraged to interpret scientific/medical research and create works of art depicting issues of cultural, political, and technological significance.
Current and Past Exhibitions
Kolams: Memories & Patterns
By Shanthi Chandrasekar
Kolam is a traditional drawing done by women in front of their houses at dawn and dusk as a daily ritual. It was a familiar everyday activity that was beautiful, and its significance dawned on me when I moved to the US. Kolams helped me cope and navigate in this new country as I began to draw and paint them. I recollected my memories of learning to draw these patterns from my mother and grandmother along with the philosophy and life lessons embedded in them. Drawing repetitive dots and lines was meditative, calming and healing. But it was also stimulating as I realized the mathematical aspects of Kolam and began to explore its geometries and fractals. Over the years, Kolams have become a part of my artistic practice and a medium for me to express ideas from other disciplines like science, math and philosophy.
Taking Shape: Art at Every Age from Studio in a School
Studio in a School fosters the creative and intellectual development of New York City youth through quality visual arts programs, directed by arts professionals. The organization also collaborates with and develops the ability of those who provide or support arts programming and creative development for youth both in and outside of schools.
Studio in a School serves young people by integrating the visual arts into teaching and learning, and provides professional development for artists and teachers.
FIRST STOP LAST STOP: THE BRONX
Rita Nannini, Photographer
I love riding the New York City subway, but I didn’t always feel that way. When I lived on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the1980s, I limited myself to traveling on the #1 train because the subway then was so dangerous. Decades later, I heard about the game “End of the Line” in which teens would board any train and stay on to its end point. I was immediately intrigued, imagining all the visual possibilities at the terminal stops. In 2013, I began photographing them and soon realized that the last stop for some is the first stop for others. That altered my perspective and this project.
First Stop Last Stop: The Bronx explores the physical and metaphorical connections I discovered at the beginning/end of all seven lines which travel to the Bronx: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, B and D.
RESTORATIVE NATURE
Christina Massey, Artist
In this exhibition, the power of botanical inspiration takes center stage, transforming our glass-enclosed gallery space into a terrarium filled with sculptures and installations that mimic organic growth. The artworks, meticulously crafted from repurposed aluminum cans, plastics, and blown glass, resemble vines and captivating plant-like objects that seem alive and growing.
"Restorative Nature" explores the idea that spending time in nature can be beneficial to one's physical and mental health and healing. By bringing a sense of the outdoors into our gallery, the artist creates a space of organic growth and exploration within the interior. As you navigate this space, allow yourself to be transported to a world where color, form, and texture converge, inviting you to explore your curiosities and fostering a profound connection to the regenerative power of nature.
The Rainy Day Donation Project
This exhibition is giving a face to the matriarchs from the RAIN Boston Secor Center (aka The Golden Ladies) and Artist/Instructor Ruth Marshall of our community who tirelessly provided love and generosity not only to their families but to other families who they will never meet, simply because they wanted to do something to help. The Golden Ladies have generously donated over 400 items to Montefiore Medical Center’s NICUs and more recently to a women’s shelter in the Bronx.
Studios in the Bronx 2022: Artwork from Studios in a School NYC
Studio NYC is honored to partner with The Fine Art Program and Collection at Montefiore Einstein to present Studios in the Bronx 2022: Artwork from Studio in a School NYC. On view at The Gallery of ARTful Medicine at Montefiore’s Hutchinson campus, this exhibition of vibrant artworks created by children and teens living and learning in the Bronx. During the 2021-2022 school year, the young artists in this exhibition participated in Studio in a School’s visual arts programs, which transformed public school classrooms into thriving art studios. Including paintings, sculptures, drawings, and collages, the art on display demonstrates a wide range of media and subjects explored by students. Working with Studio Artist Instructors, students observe, imagine, and interpret the people, places, and things that make up their lives.
An ARTFul Interpretation of Orthopedics
“An ARTFul Interpretation of Orthopedics” is an exhibition highlighting and exploring the work of orthopedics, as told through the art of papercraft. Drawing inspiration from her own childhood experience wearing a backbrace for seven years, Marianne Petit wanted to find a way to provide an informative but gentle visual journey through health and potential treatments.
Forgotten Women of Science
The Forgotten Women of Science features lesser-acknowledged female scientists, from ancient times to the nineteenth century when the suffrage movement took shape. Through multi-media works, texts and images, Karimi challenges the inadequate recognition of female scientists in historic records by highlighting their names, stories and achievements.
The Bronx is Building
This exhibit highlights the collaboration between community members, designers/architects, student doctors and public health professionals to advocate for the transformation of the Cross Bronx Expressway (CBE) as a public health and quality of life intervention.
Studio in a School
An exhibition of 46 vibrant artworks created by children living and learning in the Bronx. These artworks, by students in preschool 3K through 5th grade, were created in public school classrooms transformed into thriving art studios through Studio in a School NYC (“Studio”)’s visual arts programs in partnership with New York City’s Department of Education. Through painting and sculpture, drawings and collage, the art displayed demonstrates the range of media explored by students. Working with Studio’s Artist Instructors, students observed, imagined, and interpreted the people, places and things that make up their lives, learning to look at their own worlds with artists’ eyes.
Wilma Bulkin-Siegel
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Signs of Compassion
To demonstrate how compassion, learning and understanding can bridge gaps between cultures and languages, the exhibit Signs of Compassion presents portraits of the hearing community signing each phrase of Emily Dickinson’s poem of the same title in American Sign Language (ASL) in conjunction with video of Deaf poets expressing the work.