Bob Magrisso is an untrained artist who has been seriously creating art for over 50 years, beginning with pointillist drawings done in the margins of his medical school lecture notes. He works primarily in mixed media, drawing and wood. The latter includes wood carving, wood turning and construction. As a longtime participant in the mystical path Cafh, he considers each work a meditation. Subjects vary, but generally have a spiritual significance. Sometimes he use Jewish iconography and other times other objects as symbols. He loves Hopi kachinas. In midlife he had a heart attack, cardiac arrest and near-death experience. It has been an unending source of inspiration. A recently retired physician, he has recently displayed some of the more than three hundred 6 x 4-inch India ink drawings done on the cardboard backs of his prescription and note pads, done in between patients and while talking on the telephone.
Bob lives in Evanston. His work has been displayed at the ARC Gallery in Chicago, the Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College, the Art Center of Highland Park, the Noyes Cultural Art Center in Evanston, the Atrium Gallery of Midwest Palliative Care and Hospice in Glenview and the Almquist Gallery of North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka. He has been a part of the Evanston Made group show and had a 6-month solo show at the Morton Civic Center in Evanston called “Light in Dark Places”. His work is in private collections. He has spoken publicly many time about his NDE and presented at a national IANDS[1] conference on “Enhanced Creativity after Near Death Experience”. Currently he is a contributor to Cafh Global and “Seeds of Unfolding”, productions of the international Cafh community.