Kunié Sugiura Let the Images Breathe

Kunié Sugiura Let the Images Breathe

A new retrospective, Photopainting, reveals an artist who reinvented the twentieth-century US avant-garde with idiosyncratic approaches to traditional Japanese aesthetics Kunié Sugiura doesn’t just take pictures. Since relocating from Nagoya to attend art school in Chicago, she has absorbed, applied and expanded upon many aspects of US avant-garde art practices of the twentieth century’s second half, bringing multiple techniques from other artfo…