Art

In addition to all of the hands-on facilitation to our patients’ health it is important for us to provide the overall environment of the center conducive to healing and enhancing experience of living. Art is one of the tools in bringing about healing. This program was initiated and is run by Yanina Adler, Ph.D. , who outside her professional interests in creating gene and drug delivery particles, fortunately has developed a strong passion for art. Her tireless efforts have brought about an unprecedented engagement by the art community with the cancer center.

Our community is home to many talented artists who are happy to share their creations through SDCC/SDCRI. We established rotational art exhibits for the local artists to show their work and to enhance the experience of our patients and staff.

Here are shows announcements and a few segments of the commentary on the shows.

September 24 , 2010

Next Friday 9/24 6-8pm we are hosting the Healing Arts reception which you truly do not want to miss. The walls of our center are shimmering with an unprecedentedly powerful beauty. The SACRED WORKS of Gerrit Greve are nothing short of a frozen flow of sacred spirits on canvases. Gerrit is a multifaceted international art phenomenon. To mention just one of his accolades: a painting of his is included in the compendium “1001 Paintings - You Must See before You Die” which contains less than 100 works by living artists and all of the most important works ever painted. A glimpse at http://gerritgreve.com website may give some sense on the breadth of Gerrit’s art, but only standing in front of these magic large canvases one can experience the journey into the reverberating beauty and slip into their dreamy sublime messages.

In addition, we are very fortunate to host an exhibition "The Excitement is Building" of architectural photographs, and architects’ renderings that represent the work of early 20th century master architect Lilian J. Rice. Her life and work is the subject of a recently published monograph by author Diane Y. Welch. Lilian Rice was the original architect of Rancho Santa Fe; visit www.lilianjrice.com to find out more about this important historic figure. The exhibit is supplemented with fine art works by local artists Greg Balogh, Connie Boulton-McCoy, M. Eggemeyer, A. Koenig, Ann Nye, Fernanda Natale-Reynolds, Carol Beth Rodriguez, Suzy Schaefer, and Mark Smith. There will also be a screening of Welch Productions’ documentary on Rice's life, “Sincerely Yours” and Diane will have signed first-edition copies of her book available.

Please, join us for the evening hosted by San Diego Cancer Research Institute wine and hors d'oeuvres Friday 9/24 6-8pm at the San Diego Cancer Center 2nd floor 1200 Garden View, Encinitas, CA 92024.

Kind regards,

Yanina





May 12, 2010

Below is the invitation to the art show reception. This time, it is not at our cancer center and not for one of many artists I’ve connected with during the years and to whose exhibits at SDCC we will continue to invite you. This time, it is the art show that features works by my daughter and me and is. It is on display in Solana Beach City Hall Gallery through 5/15.

It would be a great pleasure to have you see our art during May 12th 5:30-7:30 pm reception at 653 South Hwy. 101, Solana Beach. Please e-RSVP and save the date!

Kind regards,

Yanina + Sasha





April 9, 2010

This time, we are going to dazzle you with the fragments from around the world as seen through the eyes of Lisa Ross. She is a photographer who will thrill you by seeing the most familiar world’s sites in the never-before-seen way. You will know, you know what you are looking at, but you will be puzzled about never seeing it just so close up, with just such intensity and intimacy, just in such right emotional color, just from such unconventional perspective. Lisa is a wizard of cameras. Whether she photographs the grandest or the tiniest it will be a sight you have never seen just like that, and it will be an unforgettable image. No wonder she is successful and renowned artist. It is a true privilege to host this retrospective for Lisa Ross at San Diego Cancer Center / San Diego Cancer Research Institute.

Our second artist is Cyndy Brown. Her ceramics are most intricate and most whimsical one can create from humble clay. The Creator, being a male, used clay to make Adam’s body, but once Eve appeared she certainly needed shoes! Come see what shoes and Cyndy made out of clay! The mind of a woman is a wondrous place, and this has never been so plainly manifested as through Cyndy’s most unusual and beautiful creations.





November 20, 2009

It is impossible to adequately describe the non-representational art. It can only be experienced by standing surrounded by large canvases, migrating through colors and textures, while dreaming prompted by frozen flows of someone else’s emotions. After experiencing multiple shows at the museums around the world and seeing as much as time permits it is safe to say, that what this show at SDCC/SDCRI has rivals with any great modern art exhibit. Heidi Rufeh’s creations are a-must-see, a-must-experience phenomena. She mastered a unique style and power deep with meaning, emotion, and that elusive which only the best of modern art succeeds to capture.





October 11, 2009

The seascapes and landscapes by Richard Bagguley, Fernanda Natale-Reynolds, and Nina Montalbano have brought gorgeous spirit of California indoors. SDCC’s patients, staff, and visitors spend many extended moments transported to these wondrous places just by walking along our corridors transformed by art into exhibit halls. This high-end gallery quality art adds a lot to our patients care. People are walking from one frame to the next moving from high gale at the sea to the quiet gold and crimson of the Midwestern autumn. To take such walks and be transported through these visual expeditions into the realm of nature’s serine or windy scenery brings uplifting, healing, life reinstating moments for everyone. It is also SDCC’s pleasure and privilege to provide venue and opportunity for sale for the local talented artists with full proceeds going to the artists. These rotating shows are the part of larger efforts by the San Diego Cancer Research Institute, a non-for-profit organization dedicated in delivering best in the art of healing.





May 28, 2009

We are lucky to host two super-talented multifaceted art photographers - an engineer Peter Fay and an ophthalmologist Dr. Blake Shaw. The images on display at the SDCC/SDCRI are nothing short of stunning. Peter is showing the “Nature Gallery” and Blake the “Floral Dreams”. We had overwhelming positive response from the visitors to SDCC commenting of the grandeur, subtlety, and undisputable beauty of these works. For the chemotherapy recipients it often reinstates life. It adds a lot to the patient’s care. We are very fortunate and pleased to be able to give this type of enhancement to our visitors, patients, their family, friends, and all medical personnel who care for our patients and their families.