id: 172616 accession number: 2015.95 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.95 updated: 2022-10-29 17:46:14.543000 The Saint in the Marketplace, Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, India , 2003. Masumi Hayashi (American, 1945–2006). Panoramic photo collage, chromogenic prints; image: 60.9 x 187.9 cm (24 x 74 in.); framed: 74.3 x 198.4 cm (29 1/4 x 78 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dean A. Keesey (Estate of Dr. Masumi Hayashi) 2015.95 © Masumi Hayashi title: The Saint in the Marketplace, Meenakshi Temple, Madurai, India title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 2003 creation date earliest: 2003 creation date latest: 2003 current location: creditline: Gift of Dean A. Keesey (Estate of Dr. Masumi Hayashi) copyright: © Masumi Hayashi --- culture: America, 21st century technique: Panoramic photo collage, chromogenic prints department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Masumi Hayashi (American, 1945–2006) - artist Masumi Hayashi American, 1945-2006 Masumi Hayashi (born in Rivers, Arizona) is recognized for her panoramic photocollages -- pictures of space "remapped" to address cultural, political, and environmental concerns. She chooses as subjects toxic waste sites, abandoned industrial structures, and prisons, photographing with a rotating camera to produce dozens of small images. Commercially developed, the photographs are then reconfigured into large-scale grids. In 1995 Hayashi began work on a project to photograph her birthplace at the Gila River Relocation Center. Because the center was an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II, the subject is charged with both personal and political associations for the artist, who has expanded her single-medium approach to incorporate tape-recorded oral histories with the intent of translating the project onto cd-rom. Hayashi has worked as a freelance artist and graphic designer since 1977, operating her own company, Custom Picture Post Card Co. Educated at Florida State University (B.A., 1975; M.F.A., photography, 1977), she has taught at Loyola Marymount College (1983), the Cleveland Institute of Art (1986), and, since 1982, Cleveland State University. A regular participant and award-winner in the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show, a regional juried exhibition, Hayashi has also received the Florida Craftsman Award (1976), an artist-in-residency at the J. M. Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (1985), and a Cleveland Visual Artist's Award (1994). She has also been awarded a number of grants from the arts councils of Florida (1980) and Ohio (1988, 1989, 1995, 1996). Hayashi is active as a curator and lecturer, frequently participating in panel discussions across the United States. She lives in Cleveland. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 60.9 x 187.9 cm (24 x 74 in.); Framed: 74.3 x 198.4 cm (29 1/4 x 78 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Masumi Hayashi-lower right corner Written in ink in lower left corner of the image: "The Saint in the Market" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003: Indian Temples: Masumi Hayashi Photographs
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