Ep 076: The scientific method and the creative process with Chieko Murasugi, Abstract Artist / by Jackie Sanders

Your Art and Your Environment

On this episode we interview Chapel Hill based abstract artist Chieko Murasugi. We talk about unpacking the complexity of identity through art, gathering art influences from the environment around you, as well as the similarities and differences between the scientific method and the creative process.

 
 

Chieko Murasugi | Chapel Hill, NC

Abstract Artist | Painter

Artist Bio:

Chieko Murasugi is an abstract painter and mixed media artist who was born in Tokyo, raised in Toronto, and lived in San Francisco for 20 years before moving to Chapel Hill in 2012. She has degrees in Psychology (Ph.D. York U) and Studio Art (MFA UNC-Chapel Hill). She has exhibited her work nationally in galleries and museums, and her paintings reside in the public collections of the City of Raleigh and Duke University. She is a Co-founder and Co-curator of BASEMENT (founded 2019), an artist-run project space in Chapel Hill.

Artist Statement:

In my abstract works I examine the present through a process that considers the pluralistic, complex, and ambiguous nature of individual and collective narratives. I combine visual illusions with material and formal components that evoke experienced dichotomies, such as Asian versus Western, empirical versus intuitive, and historic versus contemporary. By synthesizing diverse pictorial elements—from samurai-inspired shapes and old diary pages to dried seaweed—into an elusive unity, I pose the challenge of constructing beliefs and identities. I strive to integrate seemingly contradictory impulses to produce enigmatic works that speak to questions of identity, history, and perception.

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