Sometimes artistic people are misunderstood in classroom settings. It’s easy to stereotype creative youth in movies and possibly in your own memories as the kids that daydreamed every minute of the lecture while only moving their pens to doodle their latest imaginative characters and never taking notes that pertain to the actual class. Nothing could have been further from the truth when it comes to similar labels of art and the classroom than the work of David Teplica.
Fusing the worlds of art and medicine, David Teplica takes much pleasure in adjusting the manner in which the world views the human body. Not everyone out there could maintain their sanity while being a professional photographer at the same time they run their own private practice with plastic surgery, but Teplica takes pride in his training for both that have brought him where he is today. After completing medical school at Dartmouth, Teplica trained in Plastic Surgery at the University of Chicago; simultaneously receiving the Trustee’s Scholarship for the full course of study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earning a MFA.
With patients and pictures all around the world, Tinney Contemporary is excited to present some of Teplica’s latest photographs in Intimate Decade-a diverse exploration of human contact from birth to death. It runs from November 7th until November 28th, but after such a hit opening reception last week, Tinney Contemporary has scheduled an informative and unique evening in an artist’s lecture with Teplica called Social Surgery and Genetic Pleasures this Friday, November 13th, from 5:45pm-7pm.
Exploring the world within his newest book and exhibition of the same name, Teplica is sure to amaze anyone interested in being an artist and a scholar while putting words to his imagery. Whether he is altering perception in his two-dimension photographs or changing anatomy and lives for individual betterment in three-dimension surgery, Teplica does his best so that others can relate and then become their best too. What more can you ask of a person … well, be my guest to show up this Friday and ask him for yourself
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