Archive on JSTOR
The Ed Aulerich-Sugai Collection and Archive is available as an open-access digital archive through JSTOR.
Ed Aulerich-Sugai, Cell 28 (detail), 1988. Mixed media on paper, 43.75 x 35 inches. Collection of Berkeley Art Museum. Image and description available via JSTOR.
The Ed Aulerich-Sugai Collection and Archive has been digitized and published on JSTOR as part of the open-access collection HIV, AIDS, and the Arts. This online resource makes Aulerich-Sugai’s visual materials freely available for scholarly study and public access.
The 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. These journals were later incorporated into Robert Glück’s hybrid memoir/novel About Ed (2023).
The archive includes 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 materials are freely available to the public as downloadable scans:
We are grateful to curator and archivist Emilie Hardman, curator at Reveal Digital, for collaborating with us to digitize the Ed Aulerich-Sugai Collection and Archive and make it available in perpetuity.