Category Archives: Anatomy

ROA – White Walls from Colin M Day on Vimeo.

ROA is a genius in using the street as a canvas and even more so when he is let loose on the inside of a clean gallery.  His use of material with hinges and flaps to reveal the underlying anatomy of animals is incredibly profound.  And of course, we at Street Anatomy love his work!

Eric Epstein, also known as Najork, directed, edited, animated, and all around created this beautiful video for Memory Tapes’ track “Yes I Know.” Watch as the man’s body slowly stretches, evaporates, and disappears.

You can see more of Najork’s work on his site, najork.net.

[source: ChangetheThought]

Untitled yellow 12"x11" on 1" thick wood - $50

Untitled purple 12"x11" on 1" thick wood - $50

Untitled blue 12"x11" on 1" thick wood - $50

I’m almost tempted to keep these fantastic boards for myself!

Signature cyclops skulls on wood by the prominent Chicago street artist, SARO.
“These were originally intended for the street as they are painted on the very style and size wood that I’ve used in my 100+ boards I’ve put up here in Chicago.” —SARO

• 12″x11″ on 1″ thick wood
• Premium Spray paint/Deco Marker
• Available for $50 each at the Street Anatomy gallery store

Read our recent interview with SARO to learn more about the street artist and his process.

Fabulous LEGO skeleton created by Clay Morrow.  I can only imagine how challenging it was to find all the right little pieces to make it look just right. Now if we could only get instructions!

See more angles of the skeleton and Clay’s work on his Flickr site.

Tomorrow night! Hope to see you there!

Exhibition Opening Party for "The Corrigan Family OddmentsCurated by G. F. NewlandDate: Tomorrow, Friday, June 17Time: 7-10pmGreetings Art fans! In celebration of Father’s Day, the Observatory Things-That-Move Dept. invites you all to take a peek at procreation! In nature, talents can be predisposed, and passed on from generation to generation. Families like the Gentileschis, the Peales, the Bachs, the Wyethes, and most recently, the Kominsky-Crumbs have all made a strong case for this heredity thing; the Bush presidencies, not so much, but hey, it’s a crap shoot! Anyway, our latest show is about a wee dynasty of painters named Corrigan, and through their family oddments, we will examine art, eccentricity, and the vagaries of genetic code.The Corrigan Family Oddments features the work of Dennis Corrigan and his two adult daughters, Sara and Becky. Dennis Corrigan–the family patriarch–rose to prominence in the art world of the late 1960s after returning from his tour of duty in the Philippines during the Vietnam war. He continues to pursue an active studio life involving the production of intricate and creepy yet humorous paintings, and film projects based on puppet characters derived from those paintings. His work resides in museums and galleries around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum or Art and the Brooklyn Museum. Sara, his oldest daughter, is a filmmaker and film-editor who has worked with such luminaries as Woody Allen; her fine art work consists of bizarre images of an imaginary and desperate Marilyn Monroe wannabe. These delightful yet deranged little paintings are created in oil on canvas. Becky, the youngest daughter, works as a singer-songwriter and physical therapist while creating very simple line drawings of ludicrous characters and more complex oil portraits of people on the edge.This promises to be a most enjoyable show revealing the concepts and skills, similarities and differences of a very talented and humorous family of artists.

You can find out more about this event on the Observatory website by clicking here. You can get directions to Observatory--which is next door to the Morbid Anatomy Library (more on that here)--by clicking here. You can find out more about Observatory here, join our mailing list by clicking here, and join us on Facebook by clicking here.Image: Satisfied Nicotine Freaks, Dennis Corrigan, Oil on Canvas

I just discovered the amazing anatomical mezzotints of 18th Century artist Jan Ladmiral (see above) via, of all things, a humorous blog post flaming Congressman Anthony Weiner on a blog called Booktryst. The work is gorgeous, and remind me of another of my favorite anatomical artists, Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty; see this recent post for more on that.A bit about Jan Ladmiral, from the original Booktryst post:

Jan Ladmiral (1698 - 1773) was a pupil and assistant to the great anatomical illustrator Jacob Christoph Le Blon (1670 - 1741). Afterward, Ladmiral, apparently, presumed ownership of Le Blon's secret invention for coloring mezzotint engravings, a process using three different impressions of primary colors (blue, yellow, and red) for one image and thus able to produce different color values without the use of black."Ladmiral offered his services in the making of colored anatomical representations to the famous anatomist, Albinus in Leyden. This anatomist put his (Ladmiral's] invention to the test and even permitted him to use two posthumous drawings by Ruysch…" (Choulant and Streeter, History and Bibliography of Anatomic Illustration, p. 267).Between 1736 and 1741 Ladmiral created six colored mezzotints of anatomical subjects that made his reputation and remain highly regarded as amongst the finest examples ever produced. Three of those mezzotints are seen here. The initial print in the series, Muscularis mucosae of the intestine, from 1736, is a milestone, the first use of color printing in a medical or scientific book...

You can read the entire piece in context by clicking here.Images top to bottom:

1. Brain of an Unborn Child (1738)
2. Muscularis mucosae of the intestine (1736)
3. Human penis (1741)