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Michael Beam
Turkish Medal

1996-1997

About the Item

Beam recognizes that a successful work of art “must develop its own personality…It must empower, engage or provoke the public’s attention.” One exhibition in particular, titled Owavino(1997-1998) [meaning last minute] held in Illinois—perhaps the pinnacle of media mastery—garnered Beam numerous reviews, attacks and responses, even after the exhibiton had closed, for his work Turkish Medal (1996-1997-2013). The painting combines a comparatively altered version of one of Pulitzer-Prize winning illustrator Bill Mauldin’s cartoons with overlays of clinical anatomy imagery. Art historians called the public’s negative responses “…an amusing tempest-in-a-teapot,” “a successful work of art!,” and “the [general] public’s uninformed reactions are a cause for concern.” Beam was said to be “capitalizing on profit-driven media,” and his work was attacked with comments such as “defacement,” “art sinks to a new level” and “outhouse doodles.” Michael Beam holds a Master of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from California University of Pennsylvania. Beam has over twenty years experience as a museum professional, highlights of his curatorial expertise include exhibitions created in association with Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Paul and Andy: The Early Years and Uncle Andy’s Carousel Horses with the Warhola Family, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is distinguished for curating a tremendous number of exhibitions including In the Dark, Show Us Yours: Artists Interpret Underwear which garnered international television and radio attention from WPZA, Boston; The Point 105.7, St. Louis; TALK 640, Toronto, Canada; Los Angeles Times and SAfm 104-107 Auckland Park, in South Africa. He received the 1996 Bychowski Meritus Award for service to the University Student Programming Council, representing Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, at the National Association of Campus Activities Conference in Nashville, TN. Additionally, he was chosen to represent the Masters Program and Advanced Graduate Studies at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale in A Place of People with Purpose Publication. Beam, perhaps best known for his traveling exhibitions Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait, photographs which examine the critical pre-fame years of Basquiat, winner of a Silver Addy Award, and Exquisite Corpse: Contemporary Figurative Flameworkers Play a Surrealist Game, consisting of an international grouping of glass artists’ reinterpreting the 1920’s Dadaist game Exquisite Corpse
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