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Michael Beam
Three Dog Night

2014

About the Item

The title for this work was inspired by the ruminations of Charles Manson in the 2010 publication Charles Manson NOW. “When you come to prison and you stay the fifteen years, all the dogs of the world are dead when you come back out, there is no dog that was a live when you were out last time. The three dog night would mean you were in prison three times, three times all the dogs.” 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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