Center for Neuroimaging, Neurophenotyping, Neurocomputation, and Neuromodulation (C4N) Art Collection

The Four Pillars

Each art installation was selected to highlight the center’s four pillars: Neuroimaging, Neurophenotyping, Neurocomputation and Neuromodulation. 

Neuroimaging

Two Hemispheres by David “Squid” Quinn is in the waiting room.  The two image set of colorful driftwood is representative of a normative brain on the right with items streamlined and uniform and an impaired brain on the left displayed with structural changes and dysfunction.

Perspectives by Nina Kraguljac, MD is located in the main hallway of the C4N Center.  This was part of her project on brain imaging in psychosis.  She was struck by the abstract beauty of the brain and how each level represented shows a different aspect of white matter integrity. 

Neurophenotyping

Mr. Nicholas Hill represents the human phenotype through his 6 pieces of the Pandemic Portraits installation displayed in the conference room in room 144.  His artworks include both the newspaper headlines during the COVID-19 pandemic and the people whom it affected.

Neurocomputation

Wood and Circuits Tryptic by David “Squid” Quinn is a three-piece installation located outside of the conference room number 144.  It is artistic interpretation of both the organic and the mechanical with colorful photographic images of computer circuit boards and driftwood.

Neuromodulation

Art yet to be identified.

Artwork Installations

Pandemic Portraits- Nicholas Hill

For well over a year, against a backdrop of headlines consumed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Ohio-based printmaker Nicholas Hill scanned the paper each day for people glimpsed in the backgrounds of news photos, then foregrounded them as raw brush and ink drawings across the paper’s surface. Numbering over 5,500 (with just six on view here), the drawings serve as a reminder of lives lost. Mr. Hill is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Art at Otterbein University. 

Perspectives- Nina Kraguljac, MD

Dr. Kraguljac published a paper in 2020 in molecular psychiatry demonstrating that neuroimaging can visualize subtle changes in white matter integrity in psychosis spectrum disorder.   She is the founder of the C4N center and wanted the art in the center to represent the work that is conducted within.  Dr. Kraguljac is a board certified psychiatrist and the Dr. Lee E. Shackelford Chair, Executive Vice Chair and Vice Chair for Strategy and Innovation in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Ohio State.

Two Hemispheres & Wood and Circuits Tryptic- David “Squid” Quinn

Quinn’s two art installations represent just one type of work in his varied artistic practice.  His natural love for bright colors was electrified when he worked with the Blue Man Group in New York.  Squid has been drawn to images exploring organic and mechanic in nature.  He highlights computer circuit boards and dried out wood.  Both have recognizable textural patterns that are repetitive and asymmetrical and conducive to abstraction.  Squid arranges them together to create a dichotomous pull between the natural world and manufactured objects.  He has a gallery in Cincinnati.