Gallery Talk with Nishiki Sugawara-Beda: “Adapt Adopt”

About the Artist

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, to merge them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic. Her exhibition venues range across the U.S., including in South Carolina, California, Michigan and New York. She has won multiple awards for her art, which has also been published in New American Paintings, the London Post, Art Spiel and various other journals. She is an associate professor of art at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

View Examples of Sugawara-Beda’s Artwork

About the Program

ASU’s Henry Edwards Distinguished Lectureship in Art is supported by the Edwards Family Trust that was established in 1992 by Joseph Henry Edwards and Winona Edwards of San Angelo. It provides funding for the ASU art program, including support for scholarships for outstanding visual art students, a lectureship in the visual and performing arts, and an artist residency program.