Category Archives: Anatomy

Opening reception for Zoe Beloff's "Four Hysterical Dramas" at The Great Coney Island Spectacularium
Date: This Friday, July 22nd
Time: 7-10 PM
Where: The Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Avenue
Admission: Free

This Friday, Morbid Anatomy and The Great Coney Island Spectacularium cordially invite you to an opening reception to celebrate the launch of our short-term exhibition of Zoe Beloff's installation "Four Hysterical Dramas" This exhibition will be on view at The Spectacularium from July 22nd until August 20th.

More on the exhibition following; hope to see you there!

Four Hysterical Dramas
Beloff will present four miniature theaters housing depictions of actual hysterics filmed by doctors in Belgium, Romania, and the United States. Updating a Victorian stage trick called "Pepper's Ghost", Beloff has transformed these patients into ghostly figures performing an endless loop of madness within the space of each diorama. Beloff was inspired by several remarkable developments at the end of the 19th century: the discovery of the unconscious by psychotherapists, doctors' emerging practice of filming their hysterical patients with motion picture cameras, and the public's fascination with madness which manifested itself in the emotive, hysterical behavior of actors in Parisian cabarets.

You can find out more about the event here and more about Zoe and her work here.

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In traditional Chinese medicine, sadness or grief affects the lungs, producing fatigue, shortness of breath, crying, or depression. Lungs regulate Qi, the vital energy life force.

As an explorer and an artist, Amylin Loglisci has definitely caught my eye.

Having considered herself an artist for as long as she can remember, Loglisci has always recognized, at least for her own sake, the importance of “art in life and life as an art.”

Currently residing in Istanbul, she has had many adventures. Hitch hiked over 50, 000 kilometers in her 24 years, once across Asia in the back of a Chinese dump truck. Had one of her original drawings stolen from her in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria where she was temporarily homeless and sleeping on the beach. To catch a glimpse of the world through her camera lens, check out the photo section on her personal website.

To purchase any of these amazing prints head to Amylin’s society 6.

The second week of August each year is dedicated to recognizing the service and contributions of Community, Migrant, Homeless and Public Housing Health Centers in providing access to affordable, high quality, cost-effective health care to medically vulnerable and underserved people in the U.S. ”Celebrating America’s Health Centers: Serving Locally, Leading Nationally” is our theme for National Health Center Week 2011.

Howard Liebers of Marble Road, whose mission is to connect people who have complex illnesses with the resources they need to help them improve their lives, has put together what looks like a fantastic show.  Each artist in the show has had significant experiences with their own health or the health of their loved ones, which in turn influenced their work.

A few of the artists have been featured on Street Anatomy before such as David Foox and Teagan White.  So if you’re in New York August 7-11, make sure to stop by the show!

Find out more at the flammableheart.com!

So, I realize that this was posted last year and I’m only now seeing it and it’s not totally art related, but I have to say, HOLY ORGAN PRINTING BATMAN, this is totally fascinating! Of course, I’m seeing this only weeks after seeing the film Never Let Me Go (it’s a good one, heavy stuff), and I have to say, after seeing this amazing Ted Talk, it doesn’t seem like we are that far off from having some real working solutions to organ growing (printing!?) and replacement. The organ printer is by far the most bizarre and amazing thing Atala talks about, and when you say it out loud it sounds impossible and fantastical, but it’s well underway. Who knows, if I’m lucky I’ll see the working solution realized in my lifetime (just in time to need one such organ?). This is definitely something I would love to keep an eye on and read more about, hurray for science and technology!!!!

You Me And Everyone We Know, oil on canvas, 34 x 26 in, 2010

Warrior, oil on canvas, 31 x 25 in, 2010

Release, oil on canvas, 19 x 15 in, 2011

Psychosomatic, oil on canvas, 39.5 x 33.5 in, 2011

Endless Summer, oil on canvas, 41 x 29 in, 2010

Arcadia, oil on canvas, 46 x 32 in, 2011

Highly accomplished New York city based artist Jenny Morgan, breathes a surreal life into ordinary portraits through her mastery of painting, color, and design.  Jenny mixes hyper realism with design beautifully. Her portraits invite the viewer to analyze the person and question the anatomy that is missing, rubbed away, enhanced with color, or fading.   I think I’ve found a new favorite artist!

View more of Jenny’s fabulous paintings on her site, jennymorganart.com.