Betsy Stirratt’s La Maladie on Display at the Mütter Museum of Philadelphia
The Mütter Museum’s spring art exhibit brings unusual beauty to the human form in La Maladie, a solo exhibition by New Orleans born artist Betsy Stirratt. Stirratt paints anatomical images of ailing body parts in intricate detail and sets them against gold leaf, creating works reminiscent of saintly Byzantine masterpieces rather than medical illustrations. As a result, what might look at home in an antique edition of Gray’s Anatomy becomes a shimmering study of what makes us human. In La Maladie, viewers are invited to find–and appreciate–a fragile beauty in uncomfortable...
