Kunié Sugiura

The Railroad Station . 1977

+ Leslie Tonkonow

Created more than thirty years ago... Sugiura combined her own glossy snapshot-sized photographs of urban architecture, interiors, and suburban landscapes in both color and black & white, with black, white, and gray rectangles of exposed photographic paper, or hand-painted or screen-printed papers in a range of brilliant colors. Assembling diptychs and triptychs which she attached to large sheets of matte rag paper used in fine art lithography or etching, she continued a dialogue on abstraction and representation and the relationship of photography to other mediums that began in the mid-1960s and continues to this day. Leslie Tonkonow

Red, Green, and Yellow . 1981

The Railroad Station, 1977 (detail)

Propellers 2 . 1981 (detail)