Masumi Hayashi at The Brick
Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism
Getty/PST ART · The Brick, Los Angeles · 2024
Elyria, Ohio, 1989
40 × 20 in. — Courtesy Stephen White
Uniontown, Ohio, 1990
32 × 26 in. — Courtesy of the Masumi Hayashi Foundation
Deerfield Township, Ohio, 1990
30 × 27 in. — Courtesy of the Masumi Hayashi Foundation
These three panoramic photo collages — made between 1989 and 1990 — are part of Masumi Hayashi's EPA Superfund series, which documents contaminated industrial sites across Ohio. Each assembles dozens of individual photographs into a fractured panorama, creating images that are simultaneously documentary evidence and formal elegy. Their inclusion in Life on Earth, a landmark ecofeminist exhibition backed by Getty/PST ART, placed Hayashi's work in direct conversation with eighteen international artists linking environmental destruction and gender oppression.