Painter Allison Hill-Edgar has several advanced degrees, including an MFA and an MD. She is one of those increasingly rare people who is equally dedicated to a life of science and of art, something an American education system struggles to encourage.
Though she is qualified to practice medicine, Hill-Edgar has chosen the path of the artist, instead bringing her in depth knowledge of anatomy and human systems to her painting practice. What results is fascinating––an approach to the female body that is at once deeply personal and biological, stressing the strangeness of a body as something thoroughly, but fleetingly inhabited.
Click here to read about how the artist submerges her subjects in milk to achieve this effect of liminality.