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Exhibitions Cancer & Love by Kathy Hettinga

April 6-May 2, 2020

  • During her Project Space residency, Kathy Hettinga will continue the Cancer & Love series and collaborate with VSW Press to publish a new book. Cancer & Love traces parallel, paradoxical stories—one a tale of terror of cancer/chemotherapy, and the other a love story between patient and her surgeon/oncologist, and the conflicted and dangerous space of surgeons/men with power and patients/women at their most vulnerable. Working from hundreds of photos of the parade of health care workers, microscopic photos from personal pathology slides, plus seven journals, Cancer&Love combines social commentary and personal narrative, including: the Me-Too Movement; The Emperor of All Maladies’ contention that women’s cancers have been over-treated, and patented drugs at exorbitant costs.

    Kathy Hettinga is an artist/designer, specializing in artist books and digital images/prints. She has received numerous awards, grants, and residencies—Yale Research Fellow, WSW Artist’s Book Residency, Pyramid Atlantic, exhibition award 2017+2020 CBAA, American Photography selected from 10,000 entries by Kathy Ryan of NYT. She has had a portfolio in Afterimage, and her work features in permanent collections from UCLA to Fogg Museum of Harvard.

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  • Funds for this residency came from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; the Max and Marian Farash Foundation; and Joy of Giving Something.

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