Audrius
Plioplys, MD: Neurotheology
Darren T. Hamm: La Memoria Della Malattia
Concurrent solo exhibitions of digital images
on canvas and paper by Audrius Plioplys and blueprints, paintings and
drawings by Darren T. Hamm will be on display at the International Museum
of Surgical Science in Chicago from February 7 - April 25, 2003. A reception
for the artists that is open and free to the public will take place on
Friday, February 7, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
These two contemporary artists
produce thoughtful works about human ability and disability and its relation
to the creative process.
Audrius Plioplys continued his artistic efforts along side his training
and practice as a neurologist, weaving the two disciplines together in
his current exhibition “Neurotheolgy.” His large-scale digital
images are his visual investigations of the thought process. Plioplys
states his work “reveals underlying artistic processes, artistic
memories and creative thoughts.”
Pliolpys is a Toronto native that
lives and works in Chicago as both a practicing artist and neurologist.
His work has been shown internationally.
The artwork of Darren T. Hamm explores the multitude of issues surrounding
the diagnosis, decline and death of a family member with Progressive
Supranuclear Palsy—an incapacitating illness related to Parkinson’s
Disease. His blueprints of machines strive to offer an improvement upon
impairments suffered by those disabled. His collage paintings/drawings,
being both constructed and de-constructed on the surface, and dealing with
specific physiological problems, depict a metaphorical link between the
physical and psychological deterioration of the individual.
Hamm is a recent graduate in painting and drawing from Kent State University, Ohio.