NYAB Event - Yuriko Yamaguchi "Interconnected"

Yuriko Yamaguchi "Interconnected"

Howard Scott Gallery

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In Interconnected, her second show at Howard Scott Gallery, Yuriko Yamaguchi creates mesmerizing sculptures that explore the often surprising connectedness of humans and nature. Regarded as one of America's foremost conceptual artists, she creates sculptures from both man-made and natural materials, illuminating emotionally charged themes such as change and death. Such a work is the artist's Energy, the exhibit's eight-foot-tall oval centerpiece created with hundredths of red-and-black cast resin pieces connected by gleaming stainless steel wires.

Ms. Yamaguchi has filled the show with color, which carries powerful, expressive messages, as in Energy's brilliant reds. By contrast, the softer color of the airy, 'wall-hugging' Season of Change evokes life's fragility. More turbulent and less ordered than Energy, its quivering network of chartreuse, yellow-orange, red and purple resin pieces held by copper, brass and stainless steel wires express change. The artist likens the eight-foot-horizontal sculpture to life itself and its final dissolution.

Yamaguchi's work is included in prominent public and private collections, including Washington, DC's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, also in Washington; and Northampton, MA's Smith College Museum of Art. Her major museum shows include the Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan (August through October, 2004), Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC, 1986 and 1992, and Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington. 2001). Among her several public commissions is Georgia on my Mind at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. She is currently adjunct professor of sculpture at the George Washington University, Washington, DC.