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Saturday, November 6, 2021 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM (CT)
Pollock GallerySuite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central ExpresswayDallas Texas 75206
214.768.4439
The Pollock Gallery will host the launch of Assistant Professor Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’s new full-color art book, See You There, a survey of her artwork from 2012 to 2020 in painting and installation. The book includes a foreword by writer Samantha Burns and an essay by Dr. Robert Gordon, professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Fine Arts, that offers an art historical and philosophical framework to understand the artist’s body of work. Sugawara-Beda draws upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes related to culture, language and spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism. She experiments in ancient Japanese materials and techniques including sumi ink, kakejiku landscapes and rice paper, merging them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic. She exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions across the country and lectures nationally and internationally to promote cultural diversity and exchange. Event activities include a family-friendly session on ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arrangement, from 2 to 6 p.m. with ikebana artist Motoko Ishihara, and a conversation between Sugawara-Beda and Jacqueline Chao, senior curator of Asian art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art at The University of Texas at Dallas, at 3 p.m. A drawing with multiple prizes, including a special gift box with the book and a piece of original art by Sugawara-Beda, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Copies of the book will be for sale, and purchases can be signed by the artist. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit https://pollockgallery.art.
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