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LISSETTE "CHICHI" AZCONA - OCEAN FRONT VIEWS

Artist Hometown: Camden
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Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Across from Exam Room 14 C2092

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LISSETTE "CHICHI" AZCONA - LA DOMINICANA

Artist Hometown: Camden
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Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 8 C2084

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MARLENE CRAIG - RIVULETS FLOW

Artist Hometown: Medford
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Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 3 C2079

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GWYNN WALKER DIPILLA - PANSIES II

Artist Hometown: Haddonfield
Medium: Watercolor
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Near Check-Out Desk

Artist Bio:

Gwynn Walker DiPilla has been teaching art for more than 25 years.

She is the founder of the Multi-Media for Young Artist’s program in Haddonfield and teaches adult classes through the Haddonfield Adult School.

As a working artist, Gwynn focuses on drawing in colored pencil, and painting in watercolor and oils. A number of Gwynn’s pieces were selected by the Haddonfield Tourism Committee to represent the town in a series of 14 postcards.

Gwynn earned a BA in art education from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She also took graduate courses in art at West Chester University and studied drawing and painting at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia.

“My goal is for my work to bring patrons to a place of serenity and beauty.”

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SUZY FRELINGHUYSEN

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Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Next to Exam Room 13 C2089

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YUXUAN ZHEN - FLOWERS #2

Artist Hometown: Cherry Hill
Medium: Oil Painting
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Lobby Waiting Room

Artist Bio:

The intricacies of the flowers highlighted in Yuxuan Zhen’s oil paintings are meant to symbolize the inner workings of life today.

To Yuxuan, flowers are always an abstract arrangement, a pattern of varying textures that provide a natural sense of movement.

She strives to deliver the distinct characteristic of each flower and capture its intrinsic personality on canvas.

Yuxuan started her career as an artist focusing on traditional Chinese painting. She has an MA in art education from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, and has lived in Cherry Hill since 2008.

“Orchids symbolize the imminence of springtime and hope. The color pink is associated with breast cancer and its survivors. I hope that someday a cure will be found for breast cancer.”

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CAROLYN SHELBY - JOURNEY OF HOPE

Artist Hometown: Westampton
Medium: Fiber Art
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Inside Left of Entrance of Waiting Room

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Carolyn Shelby started quilting in 2011, a year before she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

As she went through treatment at Cooper, Carolyn’s quilting group cried with her, rejoiced with her and encouraged her.

Carolyn puts her heart into everything she creates. She wants people to draw strength from the love that she pours into her work.

This fabric art wall hanging uses batik fabric and various threads, yarns, beads and crystals, inspired by her work with quilts.

Quilting gives Carolyn great joy. She quilts because she is a Survivor.

“Cancer showed me that I am creative and that I can use my creativity to make a difference.”

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PATRICIA WALKAR - SECOND LOOK

Artist Hometown: Haddonfield
Medium: Silk, Oil and Pastel
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Main Entrance to the Left

Artist Bio:

Patricia Walkar has lived in New Jersey most of her life. She is primarily a self-taught artist who began her career with portrait making.

Today, her work is largely paintings on silk that range from flowing abstracts to striking florals. Patricia’s paintings are rich blends of color and design that reflect a journey of the spirit.

Patricia lets her paintings “tell her” their titles when they’re finished. The titles talk of a spiritual journey that honors the beauty and hope of the feminine.

“Art is transformative. It takes you into a different space, a space where there is hope.”

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JOANNE KILLIAN - THE BIRCHES

Artist Hometown: Margate
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Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Ultra Sound Room 9 C2086

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Joanne Killian is a native of Atlantic City and has lived in Margate for over 30 years with her husband, Patrick. Joanne worked as a successful real estate broker associate for 25 years, all the while dabbling in her love of art.

She began by painting flower pots and table linens. At the urging of her children and grandchildren and those who saw her creations, she began to take her artwork seriously and started to take classes in oil painting, acrylic and watercolor.

“My inspiration for painting came from my first love gardening. Creating a piece of art is the same as creating a beautiful garden you experience a whole new feeling of happiness. This painting was inspired while I was hiking in the White Mountains in New Hampshire in the fall.”

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LUCILLE KASPRACK - PINK CARNATIONS

Artist Hometown: Somerdale
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 11 C2087

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Lucille Kasprack works in a variety of mediums – pastels, watercolors, colored pencils – but her longtime love is oil painting. Oil allows her to build up a painting slowly, layer-by-layer to achieve strong, detailed, vibrant and realistic images.

A retired art teacher, Lucille specializes in painting still lifes as well as florals, landscapes and seascapes. Her work is inspired by masters Paul Cezanne and Jean Baptiste Chardin.

Lucille enjoys studying the texture, shape, color and design of objects and capturing them, as well the effects of light and shade, on canvas.

A patient at the Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Lucille hopes her paintings enrich the lives of other cancer patients.

“Above all, my goal is to paint pictures for the enjoyment and introspection of people viewing them.”

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DORIS NOGUEIRA-ROGERS - LACE AND LAYERS

Artist Hometown: Woodbury
Medium: Mixed Medium
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Lobby Waiting Room

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The work of Doris Nogueira-Rogers reflects her passion for the exuberant nature of her native Brazil.

Doris graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro with a degree in art and design in 1973 before moving to Philadelphia in 1978. She later moved to New Jersey, where she has lived for nearly 30 years.

Doris’ work presents a variety of techniques. Floral and organic elements are a constant presence in her art, form works on paper and ceramics to installations and performances.

She is a teaching artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“Bright pink lace overlapping layers - The heart and body hurting - Touching, changing, healing, pink lace.” (Haiku poem by Doris)

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LAURA PETROVICH-CHENEY - CLOUDBURST

Artist Hometown: Asbury Park
Medium: Salvaged Wood from Superstorm Sandy
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Main Entrance to the Right

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A true Jersey girl, Laura Petrovich-Cheney grew up in Haddonfield and currently lives in Asbury Park.

Her work – including this piece created from wooden remnants from Hurricane Sandy – focuses on repurposing salvaged wood into something meaningful and orderly.

Laura uses wooden debris as she finds it, the textures and faded colors suggesting another life. The history of the salvaged wood is told through its chipped layers of paint, nail holes and grain. Laura uses recurrent patterns to explore ideas that are rooted in the repetition of life – birth, growth, death and regeneration.

Laura received her MFA from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.

“My work mirrors the human experience, so full of transformation, second chances, reinvention, and resilience.”

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ALICE STEER WILSON - SPRING LILIES

Artist Hometown: Moorestown, Merchantville, Cape May
Medium: Watercolor
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside Clinical Workroom C2098

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Alice Steer Wilson’s passion for art began when she was a child growing up on an Ohio farm and was nourished by childhood summers on Long Island Sound.

She mastered a variety of media and genres, including oil and watercolor still life, portraits, charcoal portraits, and plein air landscapes for which she is renowned.

Formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alice taught drawing and painting throughout the region.

Alice lived in Moorestown, Merchantville and Cape May from 1950 until her death from breast cancer in 2001. Her art was the fuel that kept her going during her battles with the disease.

Three of the paintings in the Cooper collection were created during Alice’s remission from 1996 to 1999.

“Color was a tonic to my mother, even before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. This painting of the lilies my father planted in their alleyway has become one of the most beloved of her images.” (Janice Wilson Stridick, daughter of Alice)

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DEB SPINELLA - NEBULUS

Artist Hometown: Mays Landing
Medium: Pastel
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 7 C2083

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As a self-taught artist, Deb Spinella invested the beginning years of her artistic career in creating what she calls colorful doodles.

Later, while being treated for breast cancer, Deb found inspiration in her long walks on the Jersey shore beaches and the ever-changing skies over the water and began painting sunsets.

She also discovered the therapeutic value of art, which played a significant role in helping her through her battle with cancer.

Deb’s love of pastels allows her to express her passion for the region’s gorgeous sunsets, tranquil seascapes and breathtaking skylines.

Deb’s work is exhibited regularly in various venues throughout the tri-state area. She also teaches pastel workshops to cancer survivors.

“Life is a curious thing that sometimes moves too swiftly. This is what motivates me to stop and smell the roses and look at things differently through art.”

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DIANE SWEENEY - WINTER ROOTS

Artist Hometown: West Deptford
Medium: Watercolor
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Behind Clinical Touchdown Desk C2090

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Diane is married 46 years, a mother to two successful daughters, and has two wonderful grandchildren.

She is a retired elementary school teacher who taught 27 years and was the recipient of the 2002 Burlington County Teacher of the Year award.

Since retiring, Diane spends her time volunteering and four years ago discovered her love for painting which has won her awards. “Volunteering and painting satisfies my mind and soul.”

She is a 20 year Breast Cancer Survivor who had her treatments at Cooper. “It’s such an honor to have my painting, ‘Winter Roots’, hung here at the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper!”

“This painting, “Winter Roots” speaks to me about my battle with, and survival of, breast cancer. No matter how cold and frozen winter can be, ice melts, roots regenerate and life blooms again.”

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CHRISTINE F. WAGNER - CASCADE

Artist Hometown: Moorestown
Medium: Acrylic on Yupo
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Behind Clinical Touchdown Desk C2096

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Christine Wagner has been passionate about art since early childhood. She remembers spending her days drawing figures and faces and soon moved to her preferred medium of acrylic paint.

She paints intuitively. As she applies the brush to the paper and canvas, she varies both thick and transparent layers, erasing and reconstructing, so the positive and negative spaces emerge and perhaps the under-painting will become visible.

“My artworks are speculative formations that create themselves through my personal perception and interpretation. The journey or process is never the same."

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CHRISTINE F. WAGNER - IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY

Artist Hometown: Moorestown
Medium: Acrylic
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Behind Clinical Touchdown Desk C2096

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DEB SPINELLA - RADIATION TREATMENT

Artist Hometown: Mays Landing
Medium: Watercolor
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Across from Nurse Provider Room C2093

Artist Bio:

As a self-taught artist, Deb Spinella invested the beginning years of her artistic career in creating what she calls colorful doodles.

Later, while being treated for breast cancer, Deb found inspiration in her long walks on the Jersey shore beaches and the ever-changing skies over the water and began painting sunsets.

She also discovered the therapeutic value of art, which played a significant role in helping her through her battle with cancer.

Deb’s love of pastels allows her to express her passion for the region’s gorgeous sunsets, tranquil seascapes and breathtaking skylines.

Deb’s work is exhibited regularly in various venues throughout the tri-state area. She also teaches pastel workshops to cancer survivors.

“Life is a curious thing that sometimes moves too swiftly. This is what motivates me to stop and smell the roses and look at things differently through art.”

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LORRAINE LYNCH - DOGWOOD DAYS

Artist Hometown: Piscataway
Medium: Photography
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside Restroom C2091

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A lifetime New Jersey resident, Lorraine Lynch is an avid gardener and outdoor enthusiast.

Lorraine’s work is inspired by the beauty of nature, and she is devoted to photographing natural elements as pure visions captured in a single moment.

Using her lens, Lorraine strives to keep the “garden” in the Garden State.

Lorraine has enjoyed photography for as long as she can remember. To her, a day without photography is a day without sunshine.

“If my photography can touch one person and make them feel better physically and emotionally, then I feel complete.”

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FRAN GALLUN - FANCIFUL LANDSCAPE

Artist Hometown: Haddonfield
Medium: Mixed Medium
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Nurse Provider Room C2093

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Fran Gallun and her husband moved from Philadelphia to South Jersey as newlyweds in 1970. They have since raised three children, two of whom were born at Cooper.

Fran’s work is based on imaginary landscapes and communicates playfulness and joy through layers of color and texture.

Through her work – using collage and other media – Fran strives to show new perspectives and provide viewers with a fresh way of seeing the world.

A graduate of what is now University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Fran is a teacher at the Fleisher Art Memorial.

“I am inspired by history and the notion that each of us has many layers, known and unknown within us.”

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FRAN GALLUN - COLORS, SAN MIGUEL

Artist Hometown: Haddonfield
Medium: Mixed Medium
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Across from Exam Room 6 C2082

Artist Bio:

Fran Gallun and her husband moved from Philadelphia to South Jersey as newlyweds in 1970. They have since raised three children, two of whom were born at Cooper.

Fran’s work is based on imaginary landscapes and communicates playfulness and joy through layers of color and texture.

Through her work – using collage and other media – Fran strives to show new perspectives and provide viewers with a fresh way of seeing the world.

A graduate of what is now University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Fran is a teacher at the Fleisher Art Memorial.

“I am inspired by history and the notion that each of us has many layers, known and unknown within us.”

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MAUREEN GASS-BROWN - SUNDANCE

Artist Hometown: Willingboro
Medium: Watercolor
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 2 C2078

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Maureen Gass-Brown has worked exclusively in watercolor for more than 40 years.

Her love of flowers is depicted throughout her work, which often provokes an uplifting, transcendent and inspiring effect on viewers.

Maureen has lived in New Jersey for more than 35 years. She is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and has studied with some of the eminent watercolorists in the country.

Maureen has served on the board of the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Annual Show, one of the oldest outdoor juried art shows in the country, and has been selected to exhibit in the national show for the past 20 years. Several of her paintings are part of the permanent collection at the University of Pennsylvania.

“What motivates me most is a desire to distill my subject, as much as possible, to its essence and bring out its quintessential beauty, energy, emotion and flow.”

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MARY ANN KLINE - BEACH TREE

Artist Hometown: Egg Harbor Township
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Location in MD Anderson: Janet Knowles Breast Cancer Center, Hallway Corridor, Outside of Exam Room 6 C2082

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Born and raised in Ocean City, New Jersey Mary Ann Kline started painting the marshes of South Jersey during her early 20's.

Her knowledge and love of the landscape is reflected in her oil paintings, which she primarily creates en plein air.

Mary Ann finds color exciting and intriguing, and uses color and light to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Mary Ann attended Glassboro State College and earned her MA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

“One of a few states that experiences all four seasons, New Jersey’s diversity offers a variety of beautiful landscapes that inspire all year long."

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SHIRLEY MAZZI - PINK DOGWOOD IN SPRING

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Location in MD Anderson: Second Floor, Inside Exam Room 3 C2213

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