Object Details
- Artist
- Yuriko Yamaguchi, born Osaka, Japan 1948
- Luce Center Label
- Reach Out #3 is both an abstract sculpture and a portrayal of two people talking. In the 1980s, Washington, D.C., artist Yuriko Yamaguchi created a number of hanging wall structures that attempted to "bridge [a] distance or void" by "unifying two things" with wood. She was inspired to create this series by AT&T's advertising slogan urging customers to "reach out and touch someone." Here, she chose to link the two figures with a fragile twig that emphasizes the fleeting nature of their conversation. Yamaguchi also wanted to explore connections between the man-made and the natural, so she linked two milled and treated pieces of lumber with a stick that she found on a long walk in the woods. (Yuriko Yamaguchi, interview, December 20, 2005)
- Luce Object Quote
- "Connections [are] the essence of my work." Yuriko Yamaguchi, interview, December 20, 2005
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Anthony T. Podesta
- 1989
- Object number
- 1998.152A-C
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Sculpture
- Medium
- natural, stained and painted wood
- Dimensions
- overall: 34 x 72 1/2 x 3 in. (86.4 x 184.2 x 7.6 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, W310
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Record ID
- saam_1998.152A-C
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk79f79f7ec-132d-412b-a509-45c8b8403757
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