Mark GILBERT: PORTRAITS IN HEALTH CARE EXHIBITION AT THE INTERNATIONAL
MUSEUM OF SURGICAL SCIENCE JUNE 4, 2020 – August 30, 2020 OPENING
RECEPTION: Thursday, June 4, 2020, 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to the
public. RSVP required. Join us for the OPENING RECEPTION OF MARK
GILBERT: PORTRAITS IN HEALTH CARE . Free and open to the public.
Beverages provided by our sponsors; alcohol served to 21+. Museum is
located at 1524 N Lake Shore Drive, CHICAGO IL. Accessible entrance,
ramps and elevator are available. Since the 1990s, Scottish-born,
artist and researcher Mark GILBERT HAS INNOVATED PORTRAITURE.
Depicting caregivers’ and patients’ stories and experiences of
illness and recovery within clinical, studio, and domestic settings,
each portrait expresses intimate collaborations between artist and
sitter. GILBERT’s methods prioritize values of mutuality,
reciprocity, and trust. His artistic processes express the importance
of compassionate engagement, a key feature of his arts-based research
into portraiture’s clinical, ethical, and aesthetic applications.
Dr. Mark GILBERT GRADUATED FROM GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART IN 1991 AND HIS
WORK HAS BEEN EXHIBITED IN GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS IN EUROPE AND NORTH
AMERICA. In 1999, his life and practices changed dramatically when
becoming artist-in-residence of The Royal London Hospital in England.
Collaborating with maxillofacial surgeon, Professor Iain Hutchison and
his patients, GILBERT PAINTED, drew, and photographed patients during
illness, surgery, and recovery. This series, Saving Faces , was
exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In a subsequent
artist-in-residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
(UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska, US, GILBERT PRODUCED ANOTHER SERIES, Here I
am and Nowhere Else: PORTRAITS OF CARE . GILBERT’s interdisciplinary
investigations expanded during his doctoral work at UNMC with a small
cohort of head and neck cancer patients. His and his subjects’
experiences of portraiture in clinic- and studio-based settings
generated numerous publications, and GILBERT’s research now also
applies portraiture to supporting therapeutic capacity in
artist-sitter and patient-clinician relationships. GILBERT’s work
embodies the emergence of clinical portraiture as a field and
continues to evolve as a burgeoning source of innovation and inquiry
at the intersections of ethics, art, HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION, and
medicine. Since 2015, as a fellow in the Medical Humanities program
and research associate member of the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie
University, Nova Scotia, Canada, GILBERT’s research continues.
Currently, he explores relationships among elders with dementia and
their partners in care. See more at http://www.markgilbert.co.uk/
[http://www.markgilbert.co.uk/] PARKING AND DIRECTIONS:
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[https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/#nav] This project is partially
supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of
Cultural Affairs & Special Events. This program is partially supported
by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. This program is
supported by the AMA Journal of Ethics ® which is published by the
American Medical Association and is free to all because ethics inquiry
should be a public good. Additional support for this program is
provided by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University
of Nebraska at Omaha College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media,
and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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