Circa 2000, wood, acrylic, flax, (12) part installation sculpture, the three largest elements with incised signature and dated 2000 to verso, all with integral hanging hardware for installation display. Included are a collection of gallery press releases, a signed letter from the artist to the previous owner, gallery receipt, and various articles featuring the artist.

Longest element 15 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 3 in.; Smallest 3 1/2 in.

From the Estate of the late Ron and Anne Dees, Fayetteville, North Carolina
Ron and Anne Dees were longtime collectors, lovers, and patrons of art. Starting in the late 1990s, they began their art acquisition and collection, focusing substantially on contemporary art. Their affinity for art went far beyond simply collecting and displaying. Ron served as a docent at the esteemed Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from the late 1990s into the 2000s. In addition, they were patrons of the DC-area art scene, not only promoting and supporting contemporary artists, but also Ron worked/volunteered at several prominent DC art galleries. They continued their passion for art upon moving to Fayetteville, NC, five years ago and what you see here represents over two decades of devotion to contemporary art.

NUMARK Gallery, Washington, DC

Yamaguchi was born in Osaka, Japan in 1948, and moved to the United States in 1971. She received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her work is often mixed media, and created in a series. Her sculptures utilize a variety of forms including organic abstraction, abstracted human body parts, rudimentary implements, and archaic elements, often presented together as disparate parts of an interconnected whole or paralleling an organism's life cycle. The making of Metamorphosis was initially inspired by the artist's response to the falling of the Berlin Wall. A large bronze installation of the Metamorphosis Series was installed at the Atlanta International Airport in 1998.

She taught at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and has received grants and fellowships from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Since 1972, her work has been featured in numerous exhibits, with solo exhibitions at galleries in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and at the South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, among many others.

Yuriko's work is included in many permanent collections including the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The national Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts.