Hands-On Art

Using surplus medical supplies, artist Dominic Quagliozzi guides participants in a drawing session that highlights his artistic practice of body-centered patient experiences. This program is intended for people who have had or currently experience chronic illness or pain, and their caregivers. Participants will use a selection of medical materials and a limited color palette to explore themes of self-care and coping by re-coding, repatterning and reinterpretation. Quagliozzi’s work is on view in the exhibit, Variance, Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability.
Free. No experience necessary. Materials provided. Limited space. Registration required.
This program is filled to capacity.
Through various media, with a focus on drawing, painting and performance, Dominic Quagliozzi's work merges his lived experience as a person with chronic illness and disability into art. Using medical materials common to hospitals, clinics and home healthcare; hospital gowns, IV tubing, clinic table tissue paper, to name a few, Quagliozzi hints at the presence of a body past, present and future within the health care systems and sick-well-sick-well cycles. By repurposing and re-coding medical materials as art making materials, he explores the emotional and psychological space in those moments of vulnerability, anxiety, fragility and resilience. Parallel to his art practice, Dominic uses art as a method of teaching for medical students and health workers. Art as an empathetic engine to present modes of care to healthcare professionals.
Quagliozzi received a BA in Sociology from Providence College and a MFA in Studio Arts from Cal State University, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collection at the RISD Museum and a collaborative work in the permanent collection at Museum of Latin American Art, in Long Beach, CA.  He has exhibited work in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Providence and Denmark. In 2018, he was a Keynote speaker at the Nexus Summit for interprofessional care and education at the University of Minnesota. He is on the Arts Council for Creative Healing for Youth in Pain, as well as a mentor for people on the lung transplant waiting list. He has given workshops and lectures at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, USC Keck School of Medicine, Chapman University, Cal State Los Angeles and Cal State Long Beach. artistdominic.com
Image: Dominic Quagliozzi, Untitled, 2020. Esther Mauran Acquisitions Fund.