Photographs on canvas
A highly-regarded photojournalist and filmmaker, J. Fredric May suffered a stroke during open heart surgery in 2012 that left him legally blind and subject to extraordinary visual hallucinations. May’s digitally manipulated photo-based works on view here explore his liminal regions of vision where light and dark merge in hallucinatory revelations. For May, these works are both explorations of vision and therapeutic interventions that contribute to his own recovery and inspire others. This exhibit is co-sponsored by the Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
An artist talk with J. Fredric and a panel of experts, including a neurologist and an ophthalmologist, was held on September 3rd, 2020. See the video of Healing Apparitions: Effects of Art and Stroke here.
On display from March 6th , 2019 – Present, located on the first floor of the Health Science Education Building. See a virtual tour here.
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