Enfrentando A Cáncer Con El Arte - 1996

Sobre la galería virtual El enfrentamiento del cáncer con arte es una exposición única que da la visión y la voz a las experiencias de todo el los que han enfrentado el cáncer. Patrocinado por el centro del cáncer de Abramson de la universidad de Pennsylvania y de la galería de Arturo Ross, juried la exposición incluye casi 200 trabajos y declaraciones de 112 artistas. Muchos de los artistas son los sobrevivientes del cáncer que utilizaron su arte como los medios de expresar sus sensaciones y de hacer frente a su enfermedad. Otros crearon sus trabajos en respuesta a la enfermedad de un miembro o de un amigo de la familia. Al publicar una llamada para las sumisiones, el centro y el Arturo Ross del cáncer La galería esperaba obtener bastantes trabajos para montar una demostración respetable. La respuesta abrumaba. La exposición fue ampliada a una segunda galería, y aproximadamente 90 trabajos fueron exhibidos en los dos sitios durante el verano de 1996. No obstante, no era bastante para acomodar todos los pedazos que merecieron ser considerados. Así la idea para una galería virtual fue llevada. Es nuestra esperanza que la galería virtual traerá el de gran alcance y experiencia del inspirational del cáncer de enfrentamiento con arte a los suvivors del cáncer y su amó unos a través del mundo.

Silla Honoraria
Evelyn H. Lauder
Fundador, La Fundación De la Investigación Del Cáncer De Pecho

Guardián
Seda De Gerald, PhD
Profesor de asociado, escuela del arte, universidad de Tyler del templo

Jurado
Judith Tannenbaum
Director del asociado, instituto del arte contemporáneo, universidad de Pennsylvania

Dilys Winegrad, PH.D.
Director/guardián, galería de Arturo Ross, universidad de Pennsylvania

Jóvenes De Becky
Artista, conferenciante en fotografía, escuela graduada de artes finos, universidad de Pennsylvania

About the Virtual Gallery Confronting Cancer Through Art is a unique exhibition that gives vision and voice to the experiences of all those who have confronted cancer. Sponsored by the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Arthur Ross Gallery, the...
ALFRED HOCH Fred Hoch, an artist of Swiss extraction, multilingual, elegant, died early in 1995. These three ink, pencil and gouache drawings, done late in his illness when hope was gone, seem the most personal statements of his sense that art -- the...
ALLEGRA KRAFT McIVER Comfort Quilt cotton broadcloth 58 x 70 inches 1993 From the collection of Phoebe Rogosin Resnick Allegra and I have been close friends ever since we were classmates at Wellesley College in the 1950s. The quilt was a complete...
ANDRE GOY Leaving/Living oil on linen 100 x 40 inches 1995 (The third panel of this tryptich is on display at the Arthur Ross Gallery through 8/25/96.) My mother was diagnosed in 1981 with Stage IV ovarian...
ANGELA ELLSWORTH and TINA TAKEMOTO blue feet/lymphangiogram dye color print 16 x 20 inches 1994 p> My stitched and stained feet after a lymphangiogram procedure. The doctors told me the blue would fade in six weeks. One and a half years later, I am still st(r)ained. ...
ANITA WOOTEN Dragonfly oil on linen 36 x 40 inches 1995 We live in a society so compartmentalized that the thought of our own mortality is often relegated to a few hours reflection within the confines of a church or when...
ANNE McARTHUR Summer's Voice flax, ceramic 27 x 9.5 x 4.5 inches 1995 During my mother's recovery and radiation therapy for throat cancer, I had various images and thoughts that came together into the poem, Summer's Voice. ...
ANNE MILLS McCAULEY I Know oil pastel, graphite 30 x 11.25 inches 1995 I am from a family of six children. My mother was a career woman, one of those "super moms" who managed to take care of everything quite smoothly. My parents...
ANTHONY PANZERA Breast Cancer photo gravure, surface roll, silk screen 22 x 15 inches 1995 This print, the first in a series, is my small attempt to deal with cancer. Combining a highly realistic and sensitive...
ARBARA ROBINETTE MOSS Sentinel lithograph 22 x 30 inches 1993 The sentinel is a guard. I watched my father die of lung cancer, his face becoming more and more the facade he presented to us. As if he were trying to shield us from the disease. ...
B.A. RUPERT Chelsea with Companion photograph 5 x 7 inches 1995 For the last two summers, I have volunteered part of my summer to document the Mid-Missouri Camp Quality experience. Camp Quality is a summer camp for children with...
BARBARA SURICK Bonnie Pastel 16 x 20 inches 1992 I began painting in 1991, shortly after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Once I began to paint, my cancer numbers slowly began to normalize. Often I would begin on a piece in...
BARBARA ZELES Untitled burlap, Hydrocal, metal rod 65 x 19 x 20 inches 1994 Oh No burlap, Hydrocal, metal rod 50 x 21 x 30 inches 1991 My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in January of 1976. Her...
BEATRICE GOLDFINE Is Time an Illusion oil on canvas 60 x 48 inches 1987 In 1985, I found a lump in my right breast: cancer. A lumpectomy was performed. Radiation treatments were scheduled in the mornings so that I could spend the...
BEATRICE WAXLER Grandmother's Farm watercolor 48 x 28 inches 1993 --> My breast cancer diagnosis made me aware of the need for me to relive on paper the pleasantries I have enjoyed these 60-plus years. A visit to...
BECKY YOUNG Nan I silver print 6 x 6 inches 1988 Nan II silver print 6 x 6 inches 1988 My twin sister and I shared our lives for 49 years. I photographed her during her...
BROOKS BETTS "0023.018" found image, mixed media, resin 23.5 x 23.5 inches Sag Harbor, New York 1993 My father died of cancer in March of 1989 at the age of 66. My younger and only sister died of cancer in October of 1990 at the age of 37. Most of...
CAROL HAMOY Diary multimedia 20 x 98 x 1.5 inches 1988-89 My brilliant and beloved husband, Sam, was diagnosed with terminal cancer on December 17, 1987. Malignant tumors had attached themselves to his spinal column. Not only did...
CAROLYN HARVEY Lady on the Bridge oil 24 x 36 inches 1994 I brought my paints to the hospital when I was admitted almost five years ago at age 63. I had a biopsy and was slated for a lumpectomy and lymphectomy, fortunately...
CATHERINE BURRIS Transfigured acrylic on canvas 30 x 50 x 2 inches Columbus, Indiana 1994 By December of 1993 my mother, my dearest friend, was dying, defeated by a second round of oral cancer. She was a reader; she couldn't read anymore. She loved...
CHARLES ALLMOND Redemption plaster (model for bronze) 55.5 x 26 x 19 inches Wilmington, Delaware 1995 This piece was made after a diagnosis of cancer and prior to surgery at a time when the artist was facing his own mortality and the uncertainty of the...
CHRISTIANE CORBAT Warren, Rhode Island Amazon, The Offering plaster fabric, paper, paint, burlap 89 x 25 x 5 inches 1989 Amazon, Night Light plaster fabric, paint, brass, copper, shell, feathers, electric light 28...
CHRISTINE G. REYNOLDS I Am Not Thirsty, I Am Only Parched monotype 20 x 22 inches 1995 My father was diagnosed with cancer almost two years ago. He had radiation and chemotherapy. Part of his esophagus was surgically removed. He was...
CLAIRE CHEW 19 Steps of Pain mixed media 16 x 24 inches 1995 I was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in the winter of 1987. At the time, I had just completed my first quarter in college. I spent the next one-and-a-half years...
CLYTIE W. TAYLOR Mindscape V manipulated Polaroid photomontage 29 x 13 inches 1994 Mindscape I manipulated Polaroid photomontage 15 x 15 inches 1993 In the spring of 1993, I found a lump in my...
CORINNE LAPIN-COHEN Katonah, New York Sunflower pencil 18 x 24 inches 1995 Milkweed Pods pencil 22 x 30 inches 1995 I was a healthy 46-year old mother, trainer of horses and equestrians, going into the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. ...
CYNTHIA JONES It's Malignant cut paper 16 x 20 inches 1995 "Is it benign or malignant?" is the first question I asked when my grandmother and mother were diagnosed with a tumor. My cut-paper reflects the worry, fear, and denial...
CYNTHIA L. GREEN Three Figures on a Bridge: Denial, Despair and Determination Mixed media: fiber, wood, metal, acrylic, 1995 34 x 18 x 14 inches 1986 was an eventful year for me: both my mother and father were battling cancer. I...
DALE LIVINGSTON Dawn and Grandpa Ray, July 1995 photograph 10 x 13 inches 1995 My daughter Dawn and her Grandpa Ray live 1,200 miles apart. During the 15 years of her life, they have spent about five days per year together. It's very...
DAVID ARISTOTLE HAUGHTON Kindertotentanz: Chemotherapie I etching 3.5 x 5 inches 1989 Kindertotentanz: Chemotherapie Metastatic Hodgkin's - In Memoriam watercolor, pen, ink 20 x 32 inches 1991 Ten...
David Herveat The Continuing Saga of Agent Orange oilbars with mixed media 41 x 53 inches 1993 This tribute to Terry Allen for his "Youth in Asia Series" was developed following a visit to the Museum of Modern Art of Fort Worth. I...
DEBORA C. MYLES Cancer I mixed media 37 x 25 inches 1994 Cancer II mixed media 40 x 37 inches 1994 Last summer, my good friend of a lifetime asked if I wanted to see the latest scars on her stomach. She...
DIANE KATSIAFICAS Secrets and Tangles: Text Boards silk organza, iron transfer, plywood 9 x 12 inches each board 1994-95 Secrets and Tangles: Brass Dress brass wire and silk organza; iron transfer of text 4 x 4 x 4...
DOROTHY BRYAN Hairless Anger mixed media 25 x 29 inches Bowling Green, Ohio 1990 Feeling the need to "throw things around," black India ink on watercolor paper, big brushes, and water sprayed on the ink to make it spread seemed to please me. ...
EILEEN T. BERETS Conflict Watercolor 32 x 26 inches Stamford, Connecticut 1990 This abstract painting was made in a period of great turmoil after surgery for breast cancer. Five years later, it still seems truthful to me. The organic shapes and harsh...
ELAINE RESTIFO Hung Out to Dry, Cancer Survivor Sheila King acrylic on stretched canvas 18 x 24 inches 1995 This is what I saw when I looked at my friend Sheila after she had a breast removed. She likes this painting and...
ELEANOR ALLEN Jessica oil 42 x 32 inches Malvern, Pennsylvania 1995 Jessica was a beautiful young woman, even in death. She was my husband's sister, and she died on the last day of February 1995. We have lost many family members to cancer, and I...
ELEANOR ALLEN Jessica oil 42 x 32 inches Malvern, Pennsylvania 1995 Jessica was a beautiful young woman, even in death. She was my husband's sister, and she died on the last day of February 1995. We have lost many family members to cancer, and I...
ELEFTHERIA LIALIOS Elektra Mou (My Elektra) Ortho transparency and color duraclear transparencies 16 x 12 feet 1994 My daughter, Elektra, died at the age of 5 years, 5 months, of Stage IV (metastasized) neuroblastoma. She lived...
ELISABETH T. FUHS A Family History colored pencil 8 x 11 inches 1995 Four people in my family have been diagnosed with breast cancer. My great-grandmother and my grandmother lost their lives to this disease. My mother and my great-uncle are...
ELLEN GOLDRING Stop All of This! mixed media 13 x 9 inches 1985 I am an art therapist at a large pediatric oncology hematology center, and my work has been dramatically altered by my experience with children with cancer. Art has been a...
ELLIOT W. JOHNSON Placebo #2 oil 35 x 58 inches 1995 Construction machines, metaphors for organized medicine, are juxtaposed with the interior body, specifically the colon. Here, the machines are digging holes into the floor of the organ, but...
ELLIOTT SOSSEI Symphony acrylic 34 x 26 inches 1995 I have lived under the dark shadow of cancer for 35 years. When it struck, I was an otherwise healthy 19 year old about to begin his journey into adulthood. Unprepared,...
EVELYN H. LAUDER Collage from the book, The Seasons Observed Details of photographs, clockwise from left: Winter, Colorado 1990 Wisteria in Central Park I, May 1993 Fern and Pine, 1990 Sugar Maple, U.S. Naval Observatory, 1993 24 x 24...
FRANCES NEISH Untitled oil on canvas 48 x 72 inches 1995 Untitled oil on canvas 72 x 48 inches 1995 Cancer was introduced to me by my mother's illness, starting with breast cancer during her...
GAIL SKUDERA Golden Slippers - from the Mother Rose series, one of ten photo transfer, paper, fabric, watercolor: woven 15.5 x 11 inches 1995 Sterling Silver - from the Mother Rose series, one of ten photo transfer,...
Gianna Volpe Ancestral Fields I(work destroyed) Ancestral FieldsOil and wax on canvas19 x 30 inches1993 "Ancestral Fields" is the result of a metamorphosis. It bears witness to my first truly...
GLEN SACKS Miracle House: Bedside oil on paper 39.5 x 27 inches 1994 Miracle House: Chair oil on paper 39.5 x 27 inches 1994 My experience as a volunteer in a cancer clinic in one of...
GWENDOLYN FRYER Landscape with Prayer oil on canvas 38 x 30 inches 1992 I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in August 1991, during which time I was going to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts having been a cardiology, post oncology...
HEATHER MARTELOCK Cancer? oil, gibrock 32.5 x 20 inches 1994 Locate/React/Confront oil, collaged surface wood panels 49 x 56 inches 1994 Cancer, in particular breast cancer, has played a recurring...
Honora and Kathleen Connolly We Are A Pair wool (knitted socks) and words (poem) base 20 x 20 inches Santa Rosa, California 1995 Cancer has given me a new perspective on how I view life and the opportunity to try new things. This was the first...
IRA UPIN Spectral Light (in memory of Didi Wein) tar, paper, oil, enamel on canvas 90 x 66 inches 1989 From the collection of Dana Braun In December of 1989, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and immediately...
JACQUELINE KNIEWASSER Hope Confronting Cancer bronze on Belgian black marble 8.5 inches 1991 I carved "Hope Confronting Cancer" in a small piece of creamy white alabaster for a childhood friend, Rejeanne, who had lost a breast to ...
JOANNE MACDONNELL FOSTER I.O.U. mixed media 15 x 20 inches 1994 In 1984, I had a radical mastectomy. The operation was a success, and no further treatment was necessary. Over the next 10 years, I did a series of cancer-related renderings...
JOHN COSTANZA Remember Me the Way I Was ceramic 23 x 17 x 9 inches 1995 My brother Sal and I were very close. He was dying of cancer, and on his last day, his last words were, "Remember me the way I was." ...
JOSEPH ABATE Morning Susans, Rodgers Forge, Maryland black and white photograph 16 x 16 inches Baltimore, Maryland 1993 "In Remembrance of My Friend, Patrick Harnett" For over 16 years, I knew Pat as my friend. We kidded about how any person could...
JOSEPH G. PERRELLA Portrait of the Artist pen and ink 8.25 x 6.625 inches 1990 My work with this particular idea, "Portrait of the Artist," began in 1985. I had been to visit my close friend and mentor, Arnie Bittleman, for...
JUDE BURKHAUSER Brushing my hair until it falls away ... mixed media 8 x 10 inches North Cape May, New Jersey 1994 During treatment at the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania for breast cancer, I self-published a collection...
JUDITH INGRAM Tattooed Lady silver leaf on paper, human hair 9 x 9 x 1 inches 1995 I had a lumpectomy as treatment for breast cancer. I see the little tattoo dots that were made before my radiation every time I wash or shave...
JULIA B. FISCHER Trophy to Myself steel 18 x 7 x 7 inches 1994 This piece did more than represent meaning; it created it. First conceived as a figure in, or mostly in, a box with parts protruding, this configuration turned into a...
JULIE BECKER The Burning of Flashy Trashy mixed media 20 x 24 x 5 inches Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1991-92 In 1990, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. I chose to maximize my chances for remaining disease free by participating in an ...
KATHLEEN CONNOLLY Cup of Tea tea cup, tea pot, tea bags, and wax base: 20 x 24 inches 1995 My mother and I often sit and have tea. During this time, we talk and share feelings. The cup of tea represents my mother's cup. Written on...
KATHLEEN MURPHY Untitled series of photographs 5 x 7 inches each 1994 I am submitting this entry in memory of my brother Joe Murphy. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 30 in February 1994. My...
KATHRYN KEEGAN 1 in 9 gouache, watercolor, pastel 22 x 29 inches 1994 Acceptance Watercolor 22 x 30 inches 1994 I have been a fiber artist for the past 25 years. Cancer treatments left me...
KATHY J. ARMSTRONG, et al. KATHY J. ARMSTRONG Durham, North Carolina ISABEL FARNSWORTH Los Altos, California ANDREW HARKINS (deceased) Snippets of Memory multi-media installation 1994 This installation is by, about, and dedicated to the...
KELLY FARRISH Caryn Oil on canvas, 1994 18 x 24 inches My great-grandmother Florence Soisson was an incredible woman, definitely the head of the family. When she decided to go for the chemo treatments for leukemia, we each gave her...
KEVIN KOSTELNIK Shield cast paper, redwood, nails 36 x 24 x 4 inches 1994 Tom was 27 years old and working long hours at NJ Transit in Hoboken, New Jersey, when he first threw up blood in early June of 1994. Three days...
KIM W. FINK Shroud of the Prophet gold leaf/egg tempera on panel 12 x 12 inches 1995 This is a symbolic portrait of my father, who died of esophageal cancer on December 5, 1995. The central image is of my father (not a likeness)....
KIMBERLY SAK Hair Wig (21) artist's hair 4 x 6 x 8 inches 1995 memento mori artist's hair, shower curtain, rod and rings 32 x 72 x 14 inches 1993 Vulnerability and the...
KIP DEEDS A Search etching 13 x 7.75 inches 1995 My father was operated on twice for colon cancer, the second time in August 1994. As a student at Tyler School of Art, I applied for Temple University's international program...
LENORE MALEN Maze dry pigment on jute 56 x 58 inches 1995 The idea for the series "Games of Disquiet" was drawn from the experience of witnessing the grave illness of my son, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. I...
LIBBY ELLIS This is Me with Cancer color xerox transfer on bookbinder's board 8.5 x 10.5 inch accordion book 1990 This is Me with Cancer (detail) The Hypochondriac mixed media 7 x 7...
LIESE PFEIFER Wishbone Series, Counting Days charcoal and raspberries on paper 30 x 26 inches 1995 Wishbone Series, 101 charcoal on paper 42 x 36 inches 1995 Wishbone Series, 102 charcoal on...
LIZ MUNRO Petrouschka oil on wood 42 x 58 inches 1992 I began painting "Petrouschka" shortly after arriving home from a traumatic trip to place Mother in a nursing home in a very small Illinois town. Their experience hadn't...
LOIS GOGLIA Recovery -- Dedicated to Maxine mixed media 50 x 48 inches 1985 Panacea mixed media 59 x 35 inches 1989 Since 1980, I have been making constructions out of traditional art supplies...
LORNA RITZ Apple Blossoms oil on linen 22 x 26 inches 1992 It took enormous discipline to alter my attitude more towards the positive, having suffered four cancer surgeries and follow-up treatments over a 20-year...
MARCIA SMITH Surgery Memory pastels 25 x 31.5 inches 1994 "Surgery Memory" This drawing grew out of an image/experience that happened during therapy, about one year after my surgery. I experienced what I felt was the...
MARGARET GRAHAM Passage Acrylic on paper 20 x 26 inches 1995 My dad asked me where he was going. I told him, "I don't know, but you have been a good person your whole life, and you tried hard to do your best at everything. So don't...
MARILYN NOLT The Journey Halts photography - alternative processes, copper, heat transfer onto fabric, stitching 11 x 17 inches 1994 I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the summer of 1990. I did not have...
MARTHA HAMILTON Frederick's Ferret soapstone, polyester, gold, wood, chicken feathers 26 x 28 x 12 inches 1995 Bonding with a "familiar" has for eons assuaged loneliness and promoted vigor and healing in the human partner. This image...
MARVIN FRIEDMAN Rick and Sachi pencil, watercolor 24 x 24 inches 1995 My cancer phobia began when it was discovered my father was stricken with colon cancer. He died on my 21st birthday. My mother died two years later from a...
MARYANN MATLOCK-HINKLE Aunt Stasia oil 35 x 23 inches 1995 My sister Judy died of liver cancer in 1990. My aunt Stasia died of stomach cancer in 1995. My aunt was deeply spiritual and gave courage to all around her throughout her...
MATILDA MICK Still Life with Buddha acrylic 22 x 28 inches 1995 Happily married for 33 years, I was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly before my retirement from clinical and school work. I required a mastectomy, radiation,...
MICHELLE LEVIN Pastel Study pastel 24 x 40 inches 1995 My Father's Painting oil 40 x 24 inches 1993 The world we live in is forever presenting us with obstacles. As an artist, my intention is to use...
MINDY BELLOFF Living on Nerves and Feeling steel book (mixed media paintings in moveable steel frames) 17 x 30 x 14 inches New York, New York 1994 What Is This Work About? It's about struggling to survive, About being a prisoner of one's...
MIRIAM STERN Bad Hair Day oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches 1995 Head Scarves Monoprint 18 x 26 inches 1993 This past year, two women from my community, both under the age of 50, died of cancer, leaving families...
MUR LOUISA QUAGLIA Departure - Triptych for Nellie oil, beeswax, alkyd Each panel 66 x 51 inches 1993-1995 I graduated from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 with a diploma in nursing. I had wanted to go to art school...
MURIEL BELL Shattered mixed media 14 x 27 inches Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1995 Where Are You? Searching... mixed media, collage 48 x 48 inches Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada 1995 My only child, David, at age 18, died of brain...
NANCY HYON You're Not Here I mixed media with Polaroid emulsion transfers 49 x 32 inches 1994 On Christmas Eve 1991, my husband was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. He was not a smoker. In eight months, he went from a man...
NIKI BERG Events in the summer of 1992 introduced the profound themes of death, illness, and healing to my work. I regained consciousness as my car climbed a toll booth, stood on end and crashed upside down. I began photographing as soon as I got out of the...
PAMELA M. SERETNY Where Death is Thy Sting? mixed media 2.5 x 6 feet 1994 During my college years, my two-year-old half-sister became gravely ill and was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Because of my experience with her, I...
PATRICIA MANGIONE Music in the Air oil on linen canvas 36 x 36 inches 1993-1994 This painting was created during the time my brother was dying of cancer. He loved the music of the jazz greats of the past, especially Duke...
PEGGY FEERICK AND REBECCA KAMEN Ascend wood, acrylic, photo emulsion, and watercolor on paper 12 x 9.5 x 5 inches 1995 Ascend is a collaborative piece combining sculpture and photography. The sculpture, a vessel resting on its side, confronts...
PHILIP BEHYMER Love Song for Roberta series of 5 paintings acrylic 84 x 66 inches each El Paso, Texas 1987-88 We found out in August 1987 that Roberta, my wife, had terminal cancer. We agreed to record the progress of her illness with...
REBECCA COWAN Robert etching 16 x 18 inches 1992 After my mother's long, slow death when I was just 16, I believed I could never nurse another dying person. But somehow, when my father called with the news of his cancer, I found the strength...
REBECCA KAMEN Garden Series #7 wood, acrylic, rock 10 x 19.5 x 8.5 inches 1992 Garden Series # 6 wood acrylic, rock 9 x 15 x 6 inches 1992 Participating in my own father's courageous struggle with cancer...
RUTH C. B. FIELDS Now I Can See mixed media, acrylic/pencil, marker, chalk, and pastel 36 x 26 inches 1995 In April 1993, I was diagnosed with a malignant tumor of the breast. During that time my mother was dying from the same...
S.A. JONES Deep Blue unstretched canvas, acrylic, grommets 75 x 75 inches 1995 In 1994, I had both ovarian and breast cancer. I continued to paint between surgeries and chemotherapy. During this time, my paintings grew to be as large or larger...
SAMI KHELLA, MD Will Passing oil on linen 12 x 9 inches 1995 My friend and patient Will died from cancer. His strength and courage, cheer and sense of humor made his final days bearable for his family and me. Weeping...
SARAH PETERS Damaged Child bronze 10 x 3 inches 1995 In 1987, my father, an American Baptist pastor, was diagnosed with renal cell kidney cancer. In 1988, my father died at the age of 44. I was 15 years old at the time and felt that I...
SCOTT GARRARD Self-Preservation plaster 17.5 x 16 inches 1995 My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 38. She fought for 22 years, in and out of remission. However, my mother finally lost the battle, unwillingly, at the...
SELMA BORTNER Aida and the Mirror linoleum print 30 x 40 inches Levittown, Pennsylvania 1990 Aida sees herself as grotesque -- the female problem of low self-esteem. She is surrounded by children and friends who see her as she is. But she is...
SHARON DENAULT Hurt Pastel, study for a sculpture piece in process 21 x 25 inches 1990 My first experience with cancer was in 1982, when I wasn't sure that I really wanted to survive. In 1987, my second clash occurred while I was...
SHEILA KING Retablo acrylic 20 x 24 inches 1995 On the day I began my radiation treatments at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, I walked over to the adjacent Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to see...
SHERRY THOMAS-ZON Beyond the Loss of the Breast video 10 minutes 1994 The video addresses breast cancer through the personal narratives and poetry of three women -- two with recurrent breast cancer and one (the...
SIDNEY GOODMAN Dr. Louis Castor oil on canvas 20 x 22 inches 1993 A Man on Chemotherapy pencil with traces of pastel 23 x 29 inches 1993 Dr. Louis Castor was a friend. I did a portrait of him, which...
SUSAN CHANDLER-LEMMO But I Don't Inhale mixed media: acrylic, cheese cloth, lace, paper, rose petals, ribbon, glitter, wooden frames 43 x 12.5 inches 1995 This piece chronicles my aunt's life. Each image represents a part of who she was...
SUSANNE PITAK DAVIS Angel Leaving Landscape mixed media 14 x 13 x 4 inches 1995 Angel Spreading Green mixed media 8 x 13 x 4 inches 1995 During the 10 years my twin sister survived with...
TRESSA HAWKINS The Memory Oil, acrylic, gauze on wood 12.5 x 6 inches 1995 I discovered that I had Hodgkin's disease as a 16 year-old senior in high school. I went through two surgeries and 10 months of chemotherapy before...
VOJEN WILHELM CECH-COLINI Remembrance of Places Past IV egg tempera 16 x 20 inches 1995 Before cancer: I have been a recognized painter in Europe and America. My sole focus was successful communications between a painter and his patrons. Then I was...
Welcome from the Cancer Center Director At the The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, we understand the profound impact that a diagnosis of cancer has for patients, their family members and friends. Over the past 25 years, we have been privileged to know many...
Welcome from the Curator In the struggle against cancer, art is a tool of survival. For the artists in this exhibition, art-making is a response to a wide array of emotions. As they describe it, their art "shouts what I cannot say aloud," "releases what I was feeling,"...
Welcome from the Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery The Arthur Ross Gallery seeks to involve disciplines from all over the university in art and exhibition. Our search for a project that might relate the art of medicine to artistic creativity, together with the vision of the The Abramson Cancer...