SUGIURA KAZUTOSHI
Silkscreen. Born 1938 Kyoto. Kyoto Municipal College of Fne Arts; Kyoto National Museum Japanese classical painting.
Permanent Collections: The British Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum and numerous private collections. Solo exhibitions in New York, Portland, Maryland, Washington, Australia, Canada, Japan.
Sugiura has been inspired by flowers for years, and he has an enthusiastic audience who appreciates every interpretation he makes of irises, peonies, roses, cosmos, camellias, chrysanthemums, or spider lilies. He is in particular noted for his compositions of irises and has made more than one hundred different iris prints. Sugiura relies on traditional Japanese techniques to execute his beautiful silkscreens. He applies squares of gold leaf, in the same way old screens were made, onto handmade Japanese paper. His next silkscreens his floral subjects onto the gold leaf. As each tone requires a separate screen, a colourful and complicated print may go through twenty printing stages. Next, blocking out the flowers, he uses a wash of pale shades of blue, purple, or green to cover the rest of the work, thereby toning down the glittering gold leaf and softening the effect. The result is visually relaxing, and soothing.
Title: Camellia No. 16
Date: 2005
Medium: Woodblock with gold leaf
Edition: 40
Image size: 32 x 32cm
Title: Poppy No.10 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2010
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 30
Image size: 32 x 20cm
Title: Chinese Bellflower No.6 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2007
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 30
Image size: 32 x 20cm
Title: Peony No.27
Date: 2004
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 50
Image size: 32 x 21cm
Title: Persimmon No.5
Date: 2002
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 50
Image size: 20 x 32cm
Title: Camellia No. 10 - SOLD OUT
Date: 1996
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 60
Image size: 31 x 20cm
Title: Camellia No. 17
Date: 2007
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 30
Image size: 32 x 20cm
Title: Iris No. 163 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2008
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 30
Image size: 58 x 36cm
Title: Peony No. 19 - SOLD OUT
Date: 1993
Medium: Silkscreen
Edition: 80
Image size: 57 x 35cm
Title: Peony No. 25 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2001
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 46
Image size: 20 x 32cm
Title: Iris No. 162 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2007
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 35
Image size: 58 x 36 cm
Title: Hydrangea No. 1 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2008
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 30
Image size: 33 x 20 cm
Title: Tulip No. 3 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2000
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 50
Image size: 32 x 20 cm
Title: Peony No. 29
Date: 2006
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 40
Image size: 57 x 36 cm
Title: Daffodil No. 4
Date: 2008
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 25
Image size: 32 x 20 cm
Title: Cosmos No. 9
Date: 2016
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 24
Image size: 22 x 21 cm
Title: Peony No. 31
Date: 2016
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 29
Image size: 20 x 33 cm
Title: Rose No. 10
Date: 2003
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 50
Image size: 32 x 20 cm
Title: Iris No. 165 - SOLD OUT
Date: 2010
Medium: Silkscreen with gold leaf
Edition: 20
Image size: 58 x 36 cm
