ARTIST ALEXANDER MELAMID OPENS NEW ART HEALING CLINIC IN CHELSEA
NEW YORK – Following the success of the inaugural Art Healing Ministry Clinic in Soho in 2011, artist Alexander Melamid, in conjunction with (Art) Amalgamated, has opened a new, Chelsea branch at 130 West 29th Street. The goal of the Art Healing Ministry Clinic is to channel the powers of art to alleviate major human physiological and psychological afflictions.
In addition, Melamid, the current artist-in-residence for Behavior Health at the Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens, will lecture with Elana Kun, Director of Partial Hospital Program at the hospital, on Art Healing in the Partial Hospital Program at The Queens Hospital Centeron Friday, May 25 from 11am –12pm. The lecture, which will be held at the Queens Hospital Center 82-68 164th Street, Jamaica, New York, will focus on Melamid and Kun’s recent research about how art can cure human ailments.
Melamid emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1977. Along with his long time collaborator Vitaly Komar, he created Sots Art, a Russian version of pop art that satirized Soviet Socialist Realism. After more than 60, international Komar and Melamid exhibitions, Melamid and Gary Krimershmoy of (Art) Amalgamated, opened the Art Healing Ministry in Soho in 2011 to explore the healing power of art. After the success of the Art Healing Ministry, Melamid was appointed as the artist-in-residence at the Queens Hospital Center.
Melamid’s art related therapy uses art masterpieces as a method of healing ills of all sorts: insomnia, impotence, depression. His one-hour art healing sessions in the Partial Hospitals Program expose psychiatric patients to the reproductions and on-body projections of art masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci to Jackson Pollock. The projections have an immediate effect of Deep-Art-Penetration while hard-copy reproductions of the art become part of the patients’ medicine cabinets- continuously emanating aesthetic energy to keep the mentally frail in check.
"We need to stop pretending it's all about molecular biology,” Ted Kaptchuk, professor at Harvard Medical School agrees. “Serious illnesses are affected by aesthetics, by art, and by the moral questions that are negotiated between practitioners and patients."
In addition, Melamid, the current artist-in-residence for Behavior Health at the Queens Hospital Center in Jamaica, Queens, will lecture with Elana Kun, Director of Partial Hospital Program at the hospital, on Art Healing in the Partial Hospital Program at The Queens Hospital Centeron Friday, May 25 from 11am –12pm. The lecture, which will be held at the Queens Hospital Center 82-68 164th Street, Jamaica, New York, will focus on Melamid and Kun’s recent research about how art can cure human ailments.
Melamid emigrated from the former Soviet Union in 1977. Along with his long time collaborator Vitaly Komar, he created Sots Art, a Russian version of pop art that satirized Soviet Socialist Realism. After more than 60, international Komar and Melamid exhibitions, Melamid and Gary Krimershmoy of (Art) Amalgamated, opened the Art Healing Ministry in Soho in 2011 to explore the healing power of art. After the success of the Art Healing Ministry, Melamid was appointed as the artist-in-residence at the Queens Hospital Center.
Melamid’s art related therapy uses art masterpieces as a method of healing ills of all sorts: insomnia, impotence, depression. His one-hour art healing sessions in the Partial Hospitals Program expose psychiatric patients to the reproductions and on-body projections of art masterpieces from Leonardo da Vinci to Jackson Pollock. The projections have an immediate effect of Deep-Art-Penetration while hard-copy reproductions of the art become part of the patients’ medicine cabinets- continuously emanating aesthetic energy to keep the mentally frail in check.
"We need to stop pretending it's all about molecular biology,” Ted Kaptchuk, professor at Harvard Medical School agrees. “Serious illnesses are affected by aesthetics, by art, and by the moral questions that are negotiated between practitioners and patients."
