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See You There

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Art Book

See You There

By Nishiki Sugawara-Beda

“See You There” is a full-color artbook by a contemporary Japanese-American visual artist, Nishiki Sugawara-Beda, surveying the artist’s work from 2012 to 2020 in painting and installation. Following her journey through color and form, the book includes essays in both English and Japanese.

“My recent works attempt to highlight an oft-forgotten engagement in contemporary society—a deeper connection with one’s own spirit.” – Nishiki Sugawara-Beda

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“See You There presents over a decade of contemporary multidisciplinary artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’s work and practice, from her delicate and meticulous sumi, acrylic and watercolor paintings on paper and wood, to large-scale sculpture, to her process of making her own sumi ink. As the book proceeds chronologically, Sugawara-Beda’s intertwining and layered spaces expand in complexity and scale, and allow us to enter the intimate space of her mark-making before experiencing the expansive scale of her more recent installations. This reinforces the dual presence of intimacy and powerful complexity that characterizes much of Sugawara-Beda’s oeuvre. Her works compel the viewer to get close, to move before it, and to spend time with it – the small and the large, and their countless associations, are all contained within.”
Jacqueline Chao
Ph.D., Senior Curator of Asian Art, Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas
"See You There is a delightful journey through artist Nishiki Sugawara-Beda's world of sumi, paper, and paint. Traversing these richly adorned pages is as much a pleasure for the senses as it is an exercise in philosophical inquiry for the mind."
Craig Hadley
Executive Director and Chief Curator, Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College