Profile: Jim Riswold

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In two years, Jim Riswold could make medical history. And he is hoping to permanently infect the art world even sooner.

Having transformed himself from a notorious creative director to impious pop artist during a five-year battle with cancer, Riswold, 50, says he’s gone from “a career of selling people things they don’t need to making things that people don’t want.”

That’s Riswold’s style in a nutshell: self-deprecating humor with a dab of

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