RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

Inventing the World

Jewish Art Salon invited me to talk about my creative process, passions, aspirations, and objectives. The discussion was held online, on January 29, 2023. Participants were in the U.S., Israel, and Europe. Click on the image to access a recording of the program.

The Legacy of Robert Colescott’s Manhood

My essay in the Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century exhibition catalog, published January 2023

“Robert Colescott’s paintings sing with the discord and gratification he found in his search for identity. His love for and attachment to women and his strident depictions of sexuality broadcast his pride as a man of those times. Colescott is fearless in his determination to articulate his carnal self.”

Click the image below to access the essay.

Masked Up: Robert Colescott and Me

Robert Colescott’s paintings, made decades ago, are luscious, provocative, complex, and still discomfiting. In this presentation, I discuss why Colescott’s work resonates deep within me. The talk was held during the *Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century* exhibition at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

Architecture IS Embodied Cognition

This was an exciting discussion, together with Dr. David Elkin, MD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCSF School of Medicine, and Shruti Patil, a 2021 graduate in neuroscience at the University of Texas at Austin.

10th International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, March 25-27, 2022. (Online)

Time is the Portal to the Sacred – As seen in Jewish Practices in Care of the Sick

The Conference on Medicine and Religion, Portland, OR, March 2022

First in-person conference since 2019!

A recording of this presentation is below:

Gimme Shelter: How Architecture Provides a Blueprint for Medicine
Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium, Phoenix, AZ October 2019

The Convergence of Art, Medicine, and Science: What Educators Need to Know
Art Schools Network Conference, Jacksonville, FL October 2019

The Art and Science of Medicine
Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA September 2019

The Confluence of Art and Biological Science
Department of Biological Sciences
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN August 2019

Working Together on the Frontier, Collaborations with STEM Across Campus
Panelist, College Art Association, New York, NY February 2019

Skilled Observation and Creative Reasoning in Art and Science
Mayo Clinic Humanities in Medicine Symposium, Jacksonville, FL November 2018

In the Mind’s Eye: The Neuroscience of Human Vision
The 8th Annual Medical Humanities Conference, Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI September 2018

Solomon Presents!