The Ed Aulerich-Sugai Collection and Archive has been digitized and published through JSTOR and Reveal Digital as part of the open-access collection HIV, AIDS, and the Arts.
Ed Aulierich-Sugai, Cell 28, 1988. Mixed media on paper, 43.75 x 35 inches.
This major release makes Aulerich-Sugai’s artwork and archival materials available for scholarly study and public access, extending Daniel Ostrow’s decades-long work preserving the artist’s legacy.
The online archive includes 660 catalogued items, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, figure studies, erotic drawings, photographs, process sketches, notebooks, writings, journals, sketchbooks, and a selection of Aulerich-Sugai’s earliest work. It also includes eight dream journals spanning the 1970s through 1993, each running hundreds of pages and blending writing, drawing, dream notation, and visual experimentation. Notably, these journals were later incorporated into Robert Glück’s hybrid memoir/novel About Ed (2023).
All items in the archive include detailed metadata as well as in-depth descriptions based on oral history interviews with Daniel Ostrow, offering context for Aulerich-Sugai’s artistic process, biography, relationships, and experience living with AIDS. The archive is published as open-access material through JSTOR and Reveal Digital, and all items are freely available to the public as downloadable scans.
We are grateful to curator and archivist Emilie Hardman for collaborating with us over the past year to digitize the Ed Aulerich-Sugai Collection and Archive and make it available in perpetuity.