Branch Out Neurological Foundation – YOUR BRAIN ON ART 2019
Auction Ends: Oct 30, 2019 09:45 PM MDT

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CRAN, CHRIS - 24" x 18" - Acrylic on Wood Panel

Item Number
1
Estimated Value
8000 CAD
Sold
8800 CAD to jm0ad9d9b
Number of Bids
17  -  Bid History

Item Description

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TITLE OF PIECE: 'Purple Still Life'

INSPIRATION FOR THE PIECE - ARTIST NEUROSCIENTIST MATCH UP: 

Chris Cran with the Branch Out funded project of Andrei Nastase from the University of Calgary

'Difference of the Sexes: Endocannabinoids and Traumatic Memories'

In the research, one of Dr. Matt Hill's students examined how males and females differently processed trauma memories and how endocannabinoids are involved in those differences. Since PTSD is fundamentally about fear-based memories, neuroscientists have been investigating how the brain learns and forgets about scary memories. Understanding this could hold the key to helping people recover about their PTSD.

This piece represents the differences - how the expression of fear behaviours after their endocannabinoid levels were raised between males and females. The piece will look and feel differently when viewed up close than from a distance. 

ARTIST BIO:

Chris Cran RCA is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta. He graduated in 1979 from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at the Nickle Art Galleries at the University of Calgary, Glenbow Museum (2019), Mylona Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland (2018) and at the National Gallery of Canada (2016) in a large survey exhibition (1984 – 2016) that combined exhibitions from the Art Gallery of Alberta (2015) and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (2015). He received the ACAD Alumni Award of Excellence in 2011 and the Doug and Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award in 2014. As well, he was awarded the Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s Lawrence J. Burpee Medal in 2018. He is represented by Trépanier Baer Gallery in Calgary, Clint Roenisch Gallery in Toronto and Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles.