Joyce Cutler-Shaw is a visual artist hailing from UCSD who exhibited her current project:
What Comes to Mind - Memory Traces | Engrams from the Anatomy Lesson at the UCLA Art|Sci Center. Her exhibition was multifaceted with a different aspect on each wall of the room. As you enter, there are a series of photographs, each with an image depicted from Shaw's past superimposed on a head shot of a woman (supposedly Shaw?) She includes a description of her memories of her childhood living and growing up with her mother in New York.
On another wall, she projected a slideshow of various images of the brain and body.
On the last wall, on a table, she displayed paper cutouts of images of the brain anatomy. Additional photographs that showed memories superimposed on a head were hung above.
Shaw explored the brain on the function of memory and the history of anatomy as it is a history of human representation. By framing her own memories and brain scans, she shows how the brain accumulates images from the past, becoming a storehouse of personal and cultural memories. It provides a visual representation of how our memories can look like physically. I thought that this really related to our neuroscience and art unit as art is used to explore and explain our brain and how it functions. This exhibit was fascinating and definitely worth the visit. Shaw, herself, was very friendly and extremely intelligent to converse with. Her work provided a greater understanding on the phenomena of memory and the relationship between art and the brain.
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