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5/9/2007

Go Sugimoto

M.Y. Art Prospects, New York

Daydream In My Garden

Daydream In My Garden features three black-and-white photo series produced by this young photographer between 2003 and 2007.

Walk In the Night, his first mature work, is a series of nightscapes shot on desolate streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn. By contrast, his second series, Paper-Work features folded sheets of white paper set against white backgrounds, carefully staged in his small bedroom studio. Although seemingly very different, these two series share the distinctive sensitivity Sugimoto expresses through his labor-intensive darkroom operations.

The exhibition also introduces his latest series, Daydream In My Garden (2007), which explores flowers, subjects Sugimoto describes as "amazing and necessary in my life." Their presence brings him a profound feeling of comfort and happiness, inspiring him to wander in a garden of the imagination where he 'arranges' flowers just so they can appeal more directly to him. The results, hand- colored gelatin-silver prints, are unusually subtle, almost skeletal images of flowers.

Sugimoto manipulates contrasts in order to achieve a rich spectrum of shades between black and white. This emphasis on tonality is so important to his work that light draws us in with the magnetism of the void, and shadow becomes poignant. Consequently, looking at his photography changes our normal perception of positive/negative, presence/absence, real/ethereal.

Go Sugimoto (b. 1979, Japan) graduated from the International Center of Photography, New York, in 2003. Next month, his work will be featured in a group exhibition, "Making a Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York," the Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York City.

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Opening Reception, September 6, 6-8 pm

M.Y. Art Prospects
547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor, New York
Free admission

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