Eric Avery, a Texas-based psychiatrist, uses art to further his work as a medical practitioner, educator and crusader. Avery restores the woodcut to its traditional propagandistic function, deploying prints as “Art Actions,” posters, books and other works. As activist printmaker Sue Coe remarked, the combination of Avery’s powerful prints and his work as a psychiatrist treating HIV patients “is the antibody to our disease of distance.”

Big Sick Liver was conceived as an Art Action orchestrated at the Corcoran Art Museum, Washington DC in 2005 on the occasion of the southern Graphics Conference. Creating a temporary clinic out of huge prints presenting a human liver damaged by Hepatitis C, Avery simultaneously staged a functioning diagnostic center, an educational venue, and a book-making fund-raising event.

Eric Avery's website