Art MD’s ‘Synapsis’ Exhibit Now Open at Nomad Tribe Store

Art MD, a non-profit organization founded by a group of residents and faculty at University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital with the mission of creating art-based health promotion campaigns, has “Synapsis” an exhibit about the brain featuring the work of artists Julia Buntaine and Elizabeth Jameson, on display in the window of the Nomad Tribe retail store in Miami’s Wynwood section through June 17.

Julia Buntaine is a neuroscience-based visual artist, director of SciArt Center, and editor in chief of SciArt magazine. Buntaine earned her B.A. in neuroscience and sculpture from Hampshire College, her post-baccalaureate certificate in studio Art from Maryland Institute College of Art, and her M.F.A. of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including shows in Amherst, New York City, Baltimore, Seattle, Madison, Princeton, Easton, Toronto, and others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of Johns Hopkins University. She also teaches, consults, curates, and frequently writes about art, and is currently the Innovator-in-Residence at Rutgers University and a visiting artist at Lafayette College. Buntaine lives and works in New York City.

Elizabeth Jameson is an artist who specializes in the intersection of art and science. She transforms her brain scans, particularly MRIs, into provocative images that challenge how society views illness. MRIs are one of her primary symbols of multiple sclerosis. Since her diagnosis of MS, she has undergone numerous brain scans to track the progression of her disease. Initially the sterile black and white images of the MRIs of her brain were terrifying, and she refused to look at them. Then she began using art to reinterpret these images. Her work invites people to discuss what it means to live in an imperfect body, and to stare directly at the beauty and complexity of the imperfect brain with curiosity.
More information is available at http://www.jamesonfineart.com/.

Nomad Tribe is located at 2301 N.W. 2nd Avenue, Miami, 33127. For more information about Art MD, visit http://www.artmdproject.com/.

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