Christine Young
Artist Christine Young works exclusively in the academic tradition of still life oil painting, capturing the complexity and beauty of life in the natural world with stories of beauty and humor. With authentic use of color, light and shadow, I seek to engage the observer in the play of translating the three-dimensional world on to a flat panel. Following college and several years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, I earned my master’s degree from the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with an internship at the Mayo Clinic.
Fine art has come into focus for me following a career in medical illustration and animation, visually educating physicians and patients on discovery medicine, surgical innovation, and the molecular biology of biopharmaceutical development. Teaching graduate students and mentoring master’s research in the Biomedical Visualization program at University of Illinois at Chicago informed the translation of the visual world into magic. As a student of the old masters, 1/12th scale miniatures, and trompe l’oeil, I continue with relentless determination to translate the world with curiosity and joy.
Email: young@medicalart.com
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