June 11–18, 1998
six pick
All the Symptoms of an Artist
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Ahren's with Used and Worn (soap and sardine cans)
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This Wednesday the Esther Klein Gallery and Organization for Artists Trained in Healthcare (OATH) open All the Symptoms of an Artist: Working from Medicine, a traveling exhibit featuring roughly 25 works by seven artists who were formerly healthcare practitioners. The show was curated by Cynthia Roznoy, a former ob-gyn nurse who left medicine to get a Ph.D. in art history and now manages the Whitney Museum of American Art's Stamford, Connecticut branch. Artists in the show include June Ahrens, a former psychiatric and public health nurse who creates sculpture out of bars of soap, latex and gauze; Libbie Soffer, a former dental hygienist who creates sculpture out of fabric; Elizabeth Hill, a former pediatric nurse who makes sculptures of children (Hill and Soffer are both local artists); Frederick Franck, who holds medical and dental degrees, and now paints, sculpts and writes (he's published 37 books); Sharon Gilmore, a former rehabilitation nurse who's showing a reclining wheelchair covered with sod and pebbles; a former opthalmologist, Rosalind Kaplan; and a former psychoanalyst, Cynthia Stone.
The opening reception, on Wednesday, June 17, 5-7 p.m., will feature music by the Philhormonics, a jazz band made up of—what else?—endocrinologists.
June 17-July 10, Esther M. Klein Gallery, University City Science Center, 3600 Market St., 849-5790.
-Jennifer Darr
