"X-rays as art? Why not?" artist Lois Goglia insists. Lois Goglia has questioned art’s limits by bringing the medical X-ray up for scrutiny as Duchamp did when he exhibited a urinal in the Society of Independent Artists Exposition in 1917.

"Line, value, color, texture, shape are the artist’s vocabulary. These are all inherent in the X-ray," Goglia avers. Although a few artists have used X-ray in their work as of late, Goglia insists that such an investigation has not been thorough.

Goglia has been attempting to fill in the missing pieces. She has been investigating X-rays as an art form for the last twenty years. This artist has incorporated them into large constructions titled Healing Figures, placed them on light boxes in the series titled GENESIS, and now is using them as a ground in the monoprint X-ray collage series titled X-RAYS: CUT AND PAINTED.

Despite the fact that the X-ray is often a sign of illness and distress, Goglia’s acrylic monoprints and collages on X-ray grounds are colorful, upbeat, and whimsical. Sometimes sections of the X-rays are reveal through the paintings. These X-rays which have been cut and pasted to make delightful artwork will be on display for the first time at the MacDonough Gallery, Albertus Magnus College.