PRESS RELEASE

April 29, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Sandra H. Olsen
Director, UB Art Galleries
716.645.0568
sholsen@buffalo.edu

Lecture and exhibition tour of “Under Each Other's Spell": The Gutai and 
New York by Exhibition Curator Dr. Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of 
Art History at Carleton University, Ottawa

Thursday, May 13, 7:00pm
UB Anderson Gallery, 1 Martha Jackson Place

Dr. Ming Tiampo, Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton 
University, Ottawa, Canada will provide a lecture and tour of the 
exhibition “Under Each Other’s Spell”: The Gutai and New York, on view 
at UB Anderson Gallery through August 22.  The lecture and tour examines 
the fruitful relationship that developed between the avant-garde Gutai 
Art Group, which was founded in Osaka, Japan, in 1954 and New York 
artists in the 1950s and 1960s. Martha Jackson, mother of David Anderson 
and famous gallerist in New York City, introduced the Gutai to American 
audiences in the important 1958 group exhibition at the Martha Jackson 
Gallery.

The exhibition draws on material in the Pollock-Krasner House 
collection, archival material in the Martha Jackson Archives of UB 
Anderson Gallery, David Anderson’s Collection and a group of paintings 
in the collection of Paul Jenkins, who was an artist in residence at the 
Gutai Pinacotheca in Osaka in 1964. The Gutai paintings were given to 
Jenkins in exchange for his own works as an act of friendship. As he 
recalled the time he and the Gutai artists spent together, Jenkins said 
that they were "under each other's spell." In addition to paintings by 
several Gutai members, including Jirō Yoshihara, Atsuko Tanaka, Shōzō 
Shimamoto, Sadamasa Motonaga, Kazuo Shiraga and Akira Kanayama, the 
exhibition features examples of the Gutai journal, rare videos of Gutai 
exhibitions and performances in Japan, and photographs of American 
artists, including Jenkins, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and John 
Cage during a visit to the Gutai group in 1964.

Associate Professor of Art History at Carleton University in Ottawa, 
exhibition curator Dr. Tiampo is a graduate of Princeton University with 
a PhD from Northwestern University whose research, writing and numerous 
lectures have focused on the Gutai Group and challenging Western-centric 
views of modernist history. Her most recent publication, Gutai: 
Decentering Modernism, University of Chicago Press will be available in 
Fall 2010.

Organized by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center where it was on 
view July 30-October 17, 2009, “Under Each Other’s Spell”: The Gutai and 
New York traveled to the Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery of New Jersey City 
University (October 22-December 16, 2009). The exhibition is now on view 
at UB Anderson Gallery through August 22, 2010.

UB Anderson Gallery is supported with funds from the College of Arts and 
Sciences, the Anderson Gallery Program Fund, and UB Collection Care and 
Management Endowment Fund.

The UB Anderson Gallery lecture is free of charge and open to the 
public, One Martha Jackson Place (off Englewood Avenue between Main 
Street and Kenmore Avenues).  Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday 
11am-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm. For information, call 716-829-3754.

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High resolution images of Ming Tiampo and the Gutai exhibition available 
on request.