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As a child neurologist and research neuroscientist, my medical and scientific work has concentrated on trying to understand how the brain is formed and how it functions, particularly in cognitive realms, at the level of the cerebral cortex. I have tried to find causes and cures for cognitive disorders: from autism in children, to Alzheimer's Disease in the elderly.
After graduating from medical school at the University of Chicago in 1975, and completing my internal medicine internship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, I worked as a full-time artist for three years. My works were primarily mixed-media sculptures and installation pieces. Amongst these works were pieces that dealt with the thought process. Subsequently, I pursued residency training in neurology at the Mayo Clinic. My artistic efforts continued as outdoor and thought-related works.
As a staff neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada, my art evolved into a total concentration on visual investigations of the thought process. Upon moving back to Chicago sixteen years ago, I further elaborated these visual and photographic metaphors.
The thought-related works included acrylic paintings on paper, transfer lettering applied to paper, and photography. A notable installation piece was Consciousness Defined, in which 14 slide projectors projected neuronal images in an enclosed space. In addition, a continuous audio tape was played in which a sentence was repeated, gradually fragmenting and then reassembling.
Artwork on display in permanent collections
Selected comments about the artwork
Catalogs of Audrius Plioplys work are available at www.plioplysbooks.com
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