Yuriko Yamaguchi
I have to admit, I’d never heard of the artist, Yuriko Yamaguchi but after learning about her work, which is featured in the Hirshorn and American Art Museum, among others, I am quite taken with her philosophy. She believes that the potential for art is everywhere — especially in the mundane everyday things that might be taken for granted. She recently completed a piece called “Seeds of Desire” based on some entangled acorn roots that she had collected and tucked away in her closet. Another exhibit was called “Floating Web” based on the inner wires and chips in old computers. I love the humor related to this particular exhibit as expressed in this Washington Post article,
Inspiration in the Ordinary, by Michael Laris.
In the video below she discusses the inspiration for her art.
Being more of a realist than a deconstructionist, I’m actually more appreciative of her thinking than her art but I can relate to the abstract quality she describes, the connections she finds and the void that she explains that art fills.
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I'm an artist, wife and mother of two boys. I started my illustration business, The Occasional Palette over 35 years ago, when my oldest son was an infant. Once my children were in school, I began painting decorative, faux finishes and murals through my second business, Casart, now over 30 years old. My third business, Casart Coverings, is a springboard from my second. Click on the link on the sidebar to see innovative, custom, designer wallcovering, removable and reusable wallpaper and coordinating decor.
