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Wilma Bulkin Siegel has had a distinguished career as an oncologist in New York City, where she also established one of the first AIDS hospices. Following her retirement she combined medicine with another childhood career target, painting, and has become an award-winning artist, recognized nationally for her series of people living with AIDS (Survivors of AIDS, The Changing Faces of AIDS-Seniors), Breast Cancer Survivors, The Homeless, and The Elderly. Dr. Siegel has exhibited across the U.S., particularly in connection with events involving AIDS and Cancer. She has been elected into Who's Who in American Art 2001. Siegel's interest in art and medicine has found expression through her programs at the University of Miami and NY Presbyterian Hospital, the CDC of Broward County, Florida, with "Operation Sunflower," and Sylvester Cancer Center, with "Bedside Art."

"I wanted to express, from a humanistic approach, the knowledge I had acquired about people as a physician. While continuing to develop my earlier artistic style, I came upon portraiture as a means of expressing the psychology of my subjects. My combined experience in sculpture and anatomy was an advantage in developing line and atmosphere - both important aspects in creating character through painting. Living in Florida, with its vivid color palette, contributed to color (the fire of life) becoming an even greater component in my work."

The artist has recently begun to work in black-and-white photography as another means of expressing psychology and emotion. She continues to be motivated by her personal motto, the three C's: Communication, Compassion, and Creativity.

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The Faces of AIDS Quilt	José F.	Joyce and Kendra	Darius and Ronny
People With AIDS	Seniors With AIDS	Children with AIDS & their Caregivers	Children with AIDS & their Caregivers
Computer-generated images with cotton, felt and ribbon	Mixed Water	Mixed Water	Mixed Water
73 x 62	28 x 36	28 x 36	28 x 36
NFS	NFS	NFS	NFS

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