Ubiquitous: Enrico Isamu Oyama (Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas, 2017)
Ubiquitous: Enrico Isamu Oyama
Curated by Aileen June Wang
Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas / 15 August – 23 December 2017
Ubiquitous: Enrico Isamu Oyama is the first museum solo exhibition of the artist, at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Curated by the museum's curator Aileen June Wang. The title Ubiquitous refers to the nature of Oyama’s practice, where Quick Turn Structure, his signature motif, appears across various mediums.
Aileen June Wang explains about the exhibition:
I met Enrico in New York in 2013 shortly after he arrived from Japan as an artist sponsored by the Asian Cultural Council. When I first saw Enrico's work, I felt immediately connected to his signature expression, which he calls QTS or Quick Turn Structure.
QTS is a form that looks like a hook or a boomerang with pointed ends. In all of Enrico’s work, you see the single unit multiplying across different directions, and dimensions, and also on different mediums. QTS can be seen not only on canvas, but also on a sticker sheet, on a digital screen, on clothing, on cosmetic packaging, and many other places. This is the reason why Enrico and I gave the title “Ubiquitous” to the show to express that idea of being seen everywhere and being at home anywhere.
The value placed on being visible everywhere is inspired by the aerosol writing culture developed in New York in the 1970’s and 1980’s and further developed in other parts of the world. That boundary-crossing nature of QTS expresses, in my opinion, the experience of many people, who are of mixed-race heritage, people who speak multiple languages, people who move around and identify more than one place as home.
I organized this exhibition with this concept as well. So, in addition to the gallery display, included in the show are also a mural on a building nearby, a sound installation in the Department of Art building, and also an outdoor live painting performance.
Oyama stayed in Manhattan, Kansas, in October 2017 to create an outdoor mural on the wall of Little Apple Art Supply, a local art supply store, as part of the Ubiquitous exhibition. The store donated the supplies needed to execute the mural. Patricia Melton, art student at Kansas State University, assisted in the production.
The museum organized an event Art in Motion during Oyama’s stay in Manhattan, where Oyama did a live painting performance in the parking lot of the museum. Oyama kept working on the live panting piece in the next few days after the live painting performance. The finished piece entered the permanent collection of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, made possible by Little Apple Art Supply.
Related events:
5 October - Art and Design Know No Boundaries: Dialogue with Enrico Isamu Oyama at AsterHouse Design
7 October - Live painting by Enrico Isamu Oyama, in Art in Motion festival, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
12 October - Stations of the Elevated, screening + lecture by Enrico Isamu Oyama at Kansas State University
26 October - Dark Progressivism, screening + lecture by Rodrigo Ribera d'Ebre at Kansas State University
Special Thanks:
Linda Duke, Aileen June Wang, Luke Dempsey, Marvin Gould, Lindsay Smith, Jui Mhatre, Miki Loschky, Japan Foundation New York, Nomura Foundation, The Anderson Bed and Breakfast, Little Apple Art Supply, Yasumasa Takeda, Patricia Melton, Tyler Askew, Tsuyoshi Anzai, and everyone who supported the project.
Directed and edited by Tsuyoshi Anzai
Filmed by Jui Mhatre and the Office of Mediated Education, Kansas State University
Photographed by Kansas State University Photo Services
Ubiquitous: Enrico Isamu Oyama official exhibition catalog
Edited by Aileen June Wang
Soft cover / 137 pages / English, Japanese / 8 x 6 inches / 500 copies / 2018
Published by Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University
To purchase, please call the museum at +1-785-532-7718
Artwork © Enrico Isamu Oyama
Beach Museum of Art 15th Anniversary
Celebrate 15 years of connecting the community and campus through art at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Manhattan in Kansas , The Little Apple, Riley County, Pottawatomie, Big Blue River
Manhattan, Kansas
City and County seat
Riley County Courthouse (2005)
Riley County Courthouse (2005)
Nickname(s): The Little Apple[1]
Location within Riley County and Kansas
Location within Riley County and Kansas
KDOT map of Riley County (legend)
KDOT map of Riley County (legend)
Coordinates: 39°11′30″N 96°35′30″WCoordinates: 39°11′30″N 96°35′30″W
Country United States
State Kansas
Counties Riley, Pottawatomie
Founded 1855
Incorporated 1857
Government
• Type Commission-Manager
• Mayor Linda Morse
Area[2]
• City and County seat 18.79 sq mi (48.67 km2)
• Land 18.76 sq mi (48.59 km2)
• Water 0.03 sq mi (0.08 km2)
• Metro 18.88 sq mi (48.89 km2)
Elevation 1,020 ft (310 m)
Population (2010)[3]
• City and County seat 52,281
• Estimate (2016)[4] 54,983
• Density 2,800/sq mi (1,100/km2)
Time zone CST (UTC−6)
• Summer (DST) CDT (UTC−5)
ZIP codes 66502–66503,
66505-66506
Area code 785
FIPS code 20-44250
GNIS ID 0476378 [5]
Website cityofmhk.com
Manhattan is a city in northeastern Kansas in the United States at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat[6] of Riley County, although it extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281.[7]
Kansas floods, flash flood Manhattan
The city was founded by settlers from the New England Emigrant Aid Company as a Free-State town in the 1850s, during the Bleeding Kansas era. Nicknamed The Little Apple as a play on New York City's Big Apple, Manhattan is best known as the home of Kansas State University and has a distinct college town atmosphere.Manhattan's location is 39°11′25″N 96°35′13″W (39.190142, −96.586818),[18] or about 50 miles (80 km) west of Topeka on the Kansas River.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 18.79 square miles (48.67 km2), of which, 18.76 square miles (48.59 km2) is land and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water.[2]
Geographic features
Flint Hills Discovery Center in Manhattan
Manhattan is in Kansas' Flint Hills region, which consists of continuous rolling hills covered in tall grasses. However, the downtown area – Manhattan's original site – was built on a broad, flat floodplain at the junction of the Kansas and Big Blue rivers. Manhattan is largest town in the Flint Hills, and is home to the Flint Hills Discovery Center.
Tuttle Creek Reservoir is 5 miles (8 km) north of Manhattan. The lake was formed when the Big Blue River was dammed for flood control in the 1960s, and it is now a state park that offers many recreational opportunities. South of the city is the Konza Prairie, a tallgrass prairie preserve owned by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University.
Earthquakes
Konza Prairie, 2005
Manhattan Regional Airport (MHK) is the second busiest commercial airport in Kansas. Eight miles (13 km) west of the city is Fort Riley, a United States Army post.Manhattan is the site of Kansas State University sporting events, Aggieville, performing arts, lecture series and the annual Country Stampede Music Festival – the largest music festival in Kansas.
Bill Snyder Family Football Stadium in Manhattan seats 50,000 spectators
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art[2] and the Kansas State University Gardens are on the campus of Kansas State University. Next to campus is Aggieville, a shopping and retail center with enough bars to satisfy the college crowd.
Manhattan's Sunset Zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Colbert Hills Golf Course, which is annually ranked by Golf Digest among the best in the state, is home to the Earl Woods National Youth Golf Academy and a host site for The First Tee program. Manhattan is also the birthplace of Damon Runyon, the Inventor of Broadway, and his Manhattan house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The buildings which house The Flint Hills Job Corps Training Center west of the city were once used as a nursing home and orphanage operated by the Fraternal Order of Odd Fellows.
The first capitol of the Kansas Territory is preserved nearby, on Fort Riley grounds. The Fort Riley military base covers 100,656 acres (407.34 km2) between Manhattan and Junction City, KS. Since 2006 it has, once again, become home to the Big Red One, the 1st Infantry Division of the United States.
As the largest municipality in the Flint Hills region, Manhattan is host to the Flint Hills Discovery Center, a heritage and science center dedicated to the education and preservation of the Flint Hills and the remaining tall grass prairie.
Economy
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In spring 1996 Chihuly visited Manhattan and visited the surrounding countryside for inspiration. The tails of the individual glass pieces have a form evocative of a stalk of wheat, a reference to the state's chief crop. The annual spring burning of the Kansas prairie inspired Chandelier's bright orange color.
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This exhibition and its accompanying publication is the first comprehensive overview of Associated American Artists (AAA; 1934-2000), the New-York based business best known as the publisher of prints sold via mail-order catalogue by Regionalists Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry, and Grant Wood. The exhibition explores AAA’s storied involvement in the surging popularity of American prints during the 1930s and 1940s. It also looks at AAA’s brokering of corporate art commission and war documentation during the 1940s and its campaign to convince American home owners to purchase its wares, including also ceramics, upholstery and clothing fabrics. The exhibition will feature over 125 works by some of the 600 AAA artists, including Peggy Bacon, Miguel Covarrubias, David Hockney, and Gabor Peterdi.
Organized by the Beach Museum of Art, the exhibition of 136 objects from over 25 museums and private collections will travel to the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, April 19-July 9, 2016; and the Syracuse University Art Galleries, New York, January 26 – March 26, 2017.
Produced by the Division of Communications and Marketing at Kansas State University.
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White House photographs by Pete Souza. This exhibition was organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions.
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Museum curator Liz Seaton describes the context and layout of the exhibition as well as several highlights.
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Visual Thinking Strategies - (an excerpt)
Kansas State University Veterinary Medicine students discuss Somewhere Along The Way Part II, 1997, by Margo Kren, in the galleries of the University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art. Linda Duke uses Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) to facilitate the discussion.
Artist as Observer - Margo Kren
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Studio Art Exploration Project, Kansas State University, Spring 2009
A Creative Residency by the Joe Goode Performance Group
The Joe Goode Performance Group, from San Francisco, Calif., performed The Rambler in McCain Auditorium in spring 2013. After that performance, the group stayed in Manhattan to work with the community to develop the fourth performance of its Human Kind series, Human Kind: What Does it Mean to Be Resilient?
Todd Holmberg, executive director of McCain Auditorium, said he worked with Linda Duke, director of the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, to develop the idea of reaching out to military families.
Briana Nelson Goff, professor of family studies and human services and director of the Institute for the Health and Security of Military Families, said the modern dance group met with local families to learn their stories of resilience, then combined them with dance, song and spoken word to create a modern dance theater performance that was later presented in Nichols Theatre.
The Joe Goode Performance Group drew upon personal stories to drive the creative process, said Holmberg. Linda and I spoke with Joe Goode several times, and it led to the idea of connecting with individuals in our community to help them express their stories in new ways. I reached out to Dr. Goff to help us identify people willing to share their experiences.
In addition to the Human Kind extended residency, the Joe Goode Performance Group was involved in two other activities while on campus. The Beach Museum hosted a workshop during which Joe Goode worked with K-State students exploring identity through movement and writing. This workshop included working with displays in the museum's galleries, especially the Museum of Wonder exhibition. The group also worked with K-State dancers in a master class setting Tuesday morning.
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Keynote by Kevin Willmott, co-writer of the film BlacKkKlansman
Acclaimed Kansas-based filmmaker Kevin Willmott co-wrote the film BlacKkKlansman with director Spike Lee. In this talk Willmott discusses how the film explores and exemplifies the rise of racism, Charlottesville, the Muslim travel ban, and the government shutdown over funding for the wall. Willmott’s films often reflect elements that currently define life in the USA. His insightful use of humor adds precision to his critiques, and at the same time affirms our humanity in the face of hatred. The film is based on the true story of (and book by) Ron Stallworth, a young African American police officer who infiltrated a cell of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado Springs, CO in the late 1970s.
This talk is the keynote for The Art of Democracy, a symposium co-organized by the Office of the Provost and the Center for Engagement and Community Development. The talk is presented by the Beach Museum of Art in partnership with the Dow Center for Multicultural and Community Studies, Center for Engagement and Community Development, K-State Department of Art, UFM Community Learning Center, and K-State Black Student Union.
Short overview of Kansas State University
Randy Regier | Celestial Mechanic, 2019
Randy Regier proposed to create a public sculpture entitled The Celestial Mechanic “that is resonant with the culture and aesthetic of sky and flight and dreams of space – yet rooted and connected to the earth and to community history and the passage of time. These are very Kansas things to me, and a large part of why I choose to live and work here.” Regier has a BFA in sculpture from Kansas State University and an MFA in studio arts from Maine College of Art. He is represented in numerous museums and private collections nationwide including the Emprise Bank Collection, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, and the Spencer Museum of Art. Public commissions include Salina Arts Commission, the Wichita Public Library Foundation and most recently Open Spaces, an international sculpture biennial installed in parks and urban spaces throughout Kansas City, Missouri.