Opening Reception: Mark Gilbert: Portraits In Health Care

Mark Gilbert: Portraits in Health Care Exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science June 4, 2020 – August 30, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 2020, 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to the public. RSVP required.
Join us for the opening reception of Mark Gilbert: Portraits in Health Care . Free and open to the public. Beverages provided by our sponsors; alcohol served to 21+. Museum is located at 1524 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago IL. Accessible entrance, ramps and elevator are available.
Since the 1990s, Scottish-born, artist and researcher Mark Gilbert has innovated portraiture. Depicting caregivers’ and patients’ stories and experiences of illness and recovery within clinical, studio, and domestic settings, each portrait expresses intimate collaborations between artist and sitter. Gilbert’s methods prioritize values of mutuality, reciprocity, and trust. His artistic processes express the importance of compassionate engagement, a key feature of his arts-based research into portraiture’s clinical, ethical, and aesthetic applications.
Dr. Mark Gilbert graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1991 and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and North America. In 1999, his life and practices changed dramatically when becoming artist-in-residence of The Royal London Hospital in England. Collaborating with maxillofacial surgeon, Professor Iain Hutchison and his patients, Gilbert painted, drew, and photographed patients during illness, surgery, and recovery. This series, Saving Faces , was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In a subsequent artist-in-residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) in Omaha, Nebraska, US, Gilbert produced another series, Here I am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care .
Gilbert’s interdisciplinary investigations expanded during his doctoral work at UNMC with a small cohort of head and neck cancer patients. His and his subjects’ experiences of portraiture in clinic- and studio-based settings generated numerous publications, and Gilbert’s research now also applies portraiture to supporting therapeutic capacity in artist-sitter and patient-clinician relationships. Gilbert’s work embodies the emergence of clinical portraiture as a field and continues to evolve as a burgeoning source of innovation and inquiry at the intersections of ethics, art, health professions education, and medicine.
Since 2015, as a fellow in the Medical Humanities program and research associate member of the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, Gilbert’s research continues. Currently, he explores relationships among elders with dementia and their partners in care.
See more at http://www.markgilbert.co.uk/
PARKING AND DIRECTIONS: https://imss.org/plan-your-visit/nav This project is partially supported by a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. This program is supported by the AMA Journal of Ethics ® which is published by the American Medical Association and is free to all because ethics inquiry should be a public good. Additional support for this program is provided by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media, and the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation in Halifax, Nova Scotia.