Recently, Marcia Tanner published a review of AFTER/LIFE at the Graduate Theological Union’s Doug Adams Gallery in Berkeleyside: “Breathtaking art show in Berkeley explores death, and life.” In her review, Tanner offers an attentive and thoughtful meditation on Ed Aulerich-Sugai’s paintings and Mark Mitchell’s sculptures and garments.
On Aulerich-Sugai’s work, Tanner writes:
You can’t help but imagine that he himself was experiencing something like the Bardo while painting these arresting compositions, feeling his own body weaken and lose its substance, knowing he was dying yet still alive enough to make such urgent, elegiac work. As farewells to corporeal beauty and carnal joys, they are a moving and remarkable last will and testament to the artist’s community in a time of devastating loss; to his own grief, fear, courage and persistence; and to his belief in the commemorative power of art.
Read the full review in Berkeleyside.