Eric Avery, M.D.


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Eric Avery, M.D Current Employment: Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Director, HIV Psychiatric Services Associate Member, The Institute for Medical Humanities The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston Galveston, Texas Address: The University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 1.402 Rebecca Sealy 301 University Boulevard Galveston, Texas 77555-0186 (409) 747-9667 FAX (409) 747-9669 eavery@utmb.edu 1201 Post Office Street (Home & Studio) Galveston, Texas 77550 (409) 763-0155
Date of Birth: 8 November 1948 Education: Undergraduate - 1966-1970 University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona Degree: Bachelors of Art in Art Medical School - 1970-1974 The University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine Galveston, Texas Degree: M.D. Internship - 1974-1975 The University of Texas Medical Branch Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Galveston, Texas Residency - 1975-1978 Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center New York State Psychiatric Institute Department of Psychiatry New York City, New York Fellowship - 1992-1994 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (HIV/AIDS) Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas
Professional Activities: Medicine Clinical Staff Psychiatrist (1992 — Present) AIDS Clinical Care and Research Program Out-Patient Clinic The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas Consultant Psychiatrist (1998 - Present) HIV & General Consultant Psychiatry The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas Consultant Psychiatrist (1997 - 2002) Texas Department of Criminal Justice Southern Regional Medical Facility, Texas City, Texas.
Professional Activities: Visual Arts Public Art/Medicine Actions (selected):
2003	"ART AS MEDICINE/MEDICINE AS ART" 3rd Import Print Conference Sage Town, South Africa
1997	"ART AS MEDICINE/MEDICINE AS ART" Straus Gallery, Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts "THE LOST ART OF HEALING" University Art History Gallery University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995	"HOW TO USE A MALE AND FEMALE CONDOM" Wallpaper installations in Houston nightclubs and coffeehouse bathrooms Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1994	"HEALING BEFORE ART: PUBLIC HIV BLOOD TESTING" Mary Ryan Gallery New York City, New York
1993	"MEDICINE ART: HIV BLOOD TESTING AS PUBLIC PERFORMANCE" Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Exhibitions (selected):
2002	REPO (session) Gallery 312 Chicago, Illinois September 13-October 19, 2002 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAPER ARTISTS: AN INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts Chicago, Illinois July 12-August 23, 2002
2001	Secret Wars Art Car Museum, Houston, Texas September 21, 2001-March 31, 2001 Looks Good On Paper Leslie Gallery Galveston, Texas April 28-June 14, 2001 Texas 2001: Contemporary Prints by Texas Artists Flatbed Press World Headquarters Austin, Texas March 8-April 15, 2001
2000	2000: RECENT ACQUISITIONS: PRINTS AND DRAWINGS (1940-Present) Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts THE VULNERABLE BODY ArtScan Gallery Houston, Texas QUINTESSENCE St. Cloud State University St. Cloud, Minnesota
1999	THE FIGURE AND ITS FIELD ArtScan Gallery Houston, Texas TEXAS PAPER: WORKS ON PAPER BY TEXAS ARTISTS The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas SIGHT/INSIGHT: VISUAL COMMENTARIES ON THE PHYSICAL WORLD New York Public Library New York City, New York THE HUMAN CONDITION Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas
1998	A GALVESTON SAMPLER Galveston Arts Center Galveston, Texas THE PRINTMAKING EXCHANGE PORTFOLIO University Art Museum California State University Long Beach, California
1997	ART THAT HEALS The Metropolitan State College of Denver Denver, Colorado FRESH INK --AUSTIN PRINT SHOPS Austin Museum of Art Austin, Texas ART, EDUCATION, AND COWS Iron/Or Gallery Galveston, Texas
1996	BLOCK PRINTS IN THE AMERICAS The College for FIne Arts University of South Florida Tampa, Florida
1995	WALLPAPER WORKS Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
Permanent Collections (selected):
	The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London, England Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Massachusetts New York Public Library, New York, New York Library of Congress, Washington, DC The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Bibliography (selected):
	Fisher, Michael "With a Hammer, a Gouge, and a Woodblock: The Work of Art and Medicine in the Age of Social Retraumatization-The Texas Woodcut Art of Dr. Eric Avery" in Para-Sites: A Casebook Against Cynical Reason Late Editions7 Cultural Studies for the End of the Century George E. Marcus, Editor The University of Chicago Press, 2000