Meditations:
The Memorial Exhibition
curated by Michael Gentile
main gallery: november 2 to december 15
opening reception: fri november 2, 5 - 8pm
lecture by A.D.Coleman: thu november 15, 7:30pm

Curated by Michael Gentile

Organized as a retrospective survey, the exhibition will examine the artist's entire body of work. Examples from most of her celebrated series will be on view, beginning with rarely seen early works from her first days at Cleveland State in 1982 to some of the latest, most mature works, including some of the last works she completed. The curator is Michael Gentile, President of M.Gentile Studios, Inc. , Hayashi's long-time friend and consultant. M.Gentile Studios prepared most of her works for exhibition throughout her career.

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Masumi Hayashi: Edgewater Park No. 2
Cleveland, Ohio 1992

Four of Northeast Ohio's premier art venues - The Akron Art Museum , Cleveland State University Art Gallery, MOCA Cleveland and SPACES - will celebrate and pay tribute to the rare gifts and artistic accomplishments of Cleveland photographer Masumi Hayashi, who was killed on August 17, 2006.

Under the title Masumi Hayashi, Meditations, each of the four will mount an exhibition that will be on view at approximately the same time over three months, from October 27 through January 27, 2008. Each exhibition will present an overview of Hayashi's oeuvre and development as an artist: her rare early works as well as some of her last images; her depictions of the American internment camps for Japanese Americans; her stark reconstructions of post-industrial Cleveland and EPA Superfund sites; and her journey as a Fulbright Scholar to document temples and ancestor worship sites in Asia.

Internationally known for her powerful, signature photographic collages, Hayashi earned a Cleveland Arts Prize , three Ohio Arts Council awards, awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts Midwest and a 1997 Civil Liberties Educational Fund research grant. Her works are found in many public collections, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography , Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Cleveland Museum of Art , the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House in Rochester, the Columbus Museum of Art , the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Ludwig Art Museum in Koblenz, Germany. She was a professor of art at Cleveland State University for 24 years.

A full color catalog of Hayashi's work - underwritten by The George Gund Foundation and the CSU College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences - will be available when the exhibitions open.

Opening reception: Friday, November 2, 5-8pm

Lecture: Documentary Photography in the 21st Century: Recurring Themes, Shifting Strategies: Thursday, November 15, 7:30pm
A lecture by A.D. Coleman, independent critic, historian, and curator.

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