Salon #8-Kunié Sugiura

16 December 2015: 10×10 Photobooks visits the studio of visual artist, photographer and photobook-maker Kunié Sugiura.

Kunié Sugiura discussed her more than 50-year interdisciplinary practice that challenges the conventions of traditional photography while synthesizing elements of Japanese and Western aesthetics. Working in the United States since first attending the Art Institute of Chicago in 1963, Sugiura has produced a highly experimental body of work that includes paintings, photography, photograms, sculptures, installations and books. Several examples of Sugiura’s works were seen this past fall in New York in a solo show at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, and as part of For a New World To Come: Experiments in Art and Photography, Japan, 1968–1979, a major survey curated by Yasufumi Nakamori that originated at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and traveled to the Grey Art Gallery and the Japan Society Gallery.

In addition to viewing Sugiura’s studio works, salon visitors had a chance to learn more about her beautiful photobook Artists and Scientists, which presents work from two series, The Artist Papers and The Scientist Papers, both of which consist of life-sized photograms depicting characteristic gestures, performances and actions by a variety of artists and scientists.