CT scans of human skulls given to me by a neurologist became the perfect vehicle for my artistic reflections and responses to the Day of the Dead holiday as it is celebrated by the Mexican people. The animal and human spirit masks as well as the skeleton and skull images in my giclee prints were created from the CT scans X-rays. My Day of the Dead Series of prints pays homage to the Mexicans, whose religious icons, ceremonial masks, and colorful artifacts have provided me with a rich understanding of the Mexican people and their culture.
Neither fish nor fowl, my boldly colored giclee prints of X-ray collages may not be conventionally beautiful. Nor do they do not meet the standard categorizations of photography such as portraiture, documentary, or landscape. But they do bridge an Art/Science time continuum: they bring together a discovery of the X-ray from the 1898 realm of science and medicine into the 2008 realm of contemporary art.
INSIGHT, is a series of X-ray collage giclee prints created from various types of X-rays: from DNA sequencing gels, cells grown in petri dishes, mammograms, and ultrasound radiographs.
In 2006, the INSIGHT prints won a highly competitive international exhibition at the New York Hall of Science sponsored by Arts Science Collaboration, Inc. and in 2007 won a national competion in conjunction with the New York Academy of Science's syposium on Science and the Arts.
Eighteen collages created from X-ray films. This series chronicles the beginning of life from the growth of individual cells in petri dishes to the developement of a full-term fetus.
GENESIS was first exhibited in a solo show at the Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, CT in 2003. It was also exhibited in a solo show at the Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2003) in conjunction with the fiftieth anniversary of the Watson and Crick's discovery of DNA. This artwork was included in a national juried exhibition at the Barrett Art Center, in Poughkeepsie, New York (2005); in an invitational exhibition at Yale University in conjunction with New Haven's Festival of Arts and Ideas (2004); in a juried exhibition at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (2003). Goglia spoke about her work in conjunction with the Housatonic and the Peabody Museum exhibitions.