Arte Corporis: Exploring the Anatomical Body
a group exhibition including Melissa Gwyn, Dawn Hunter, Lisa Temple-Cox, and Mallory Wetherell

Exhibition Dates: March 7th – April 1st, 2016

Exhibition Reception: Thursday March 31st, 2016 from 5:30pm-7:30pm

The Arte Corporis: Exploring the Anatomical Body exhibition will showcase anatomically and medically inspired contemporary art including drawing, painting, and ceramics. The artists in the exhibition employ their own connection to the study of medicine and anatomy through a wide range of applications and approaches.

This visual art exhibition will coincide with the two-day symposium Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1700. The symposium is sponsored by the University of South Carolina’s Provost’s Office and the School of Visual Art and Design, in partnership with the Columbia Museum of Art. The related symposium will showcase scholarly papers that address visual, theoretical, cultural, historical and/or contemporary connections, relationships, conflicts and/or collaborations among the visual arts, anatomy/dissection, and medicine from the eighteenth century to the present. The symposium will be held at the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina, March 31st – April 1st, 2016.

McMaster Gallery is located in the University of South Carolina’s School of Visual Art and Design at 1615 Senate Street, Columbia, SC with accessible street parking on Pickens, Senate, and Henderson.

The gallery is free and open to the public and the hours are Monday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:30 pm (closed weekends and all university holidays). For more information contact: Shannon Rae Lindsey, Gallery Director email: slindsey@email.sc.edu phone 803.777.5752