Art Tour

From the artist, Ralph Gilbert:

“The Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine art project was enormously challenging. As an artist, I am not of the world of medicine, so there was much to see and absorb before setting out to design the paintings. Generally, works on this scale are viewed at a distance in large public spaces and avoid detail in the service of a cohesive and compelling narrative.

“Along those lines, I set out to portray the culture of the medical center and the college in a style that was evocative, not illustrative, and creating a cohesive whole was the major concern.

“The work had to succeed in broad terms as a panorama, not as technical illustration. That meant that much of the imagery would be suggestive rather than literal – the idea of a microscope would be conveyed, but not with exactitude or in detail.”