Sat 8/18 @ 2-5PM
It’s exciting news that Cleveland Museum of Art Curator of Photography Barbara Tannenbaum has produced a book devoted to the late Cleveland photographer Masumi Hayashi and that Tregoning & Company gallery in the 78th Street Studios will be mounting an exhibit of her work.
Hayashi, a Los Angeles native who came to Cleveland in the early 1980s to teach at Cleveland State, was known for her intricate photocollages, composed of a multitude of small prints to create stunning panoramic images with a mosaic effect. Her subjects included sacred sites such as temples in India, abandoned prisons, Superfund cleanup sites and the sites of WW II Japanese internment camps such as the one where she was born in 1945. She won numerous awards including the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Fulbright grant several Ohio Arts Council fellowships and an NEA fellowship. She had a show of her work at the Cleveland Museum of Art among other places. Sadly, she was murdered in her Detroit-Shoreway building in 2006.
The Tregoning show opens on Fri 8/17 @ 5-9pm during Third Friday. Tannenbaum will sign her book, Masumi Hayashi: Panoramic Photo Collages 1976-2006, and share her thoughts about the show and Hayashi’s work at the gallery on Sat 8/18 @ 2-5pm.
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