Yuriko Mori

Work samples

Corps de Ballet #2

Watercolor, 18"×24"

Available for Purchase
Gaia

Watercolor, 15" X11"

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Compression/Yield

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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Art and Nature #2

Watercolor, 16"X12"

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About Yuriko

I have exhibited in juried and non-juried exhibitions throughout the greater Baltimore area since 2019. I studied watercolor, drawing, and mixed media under Diana Marta, resident artist at the Howard County Arts Center.

My work moves between expressive figuration and abstraction, exploring how relationships among form, color, space, transparency, and brushwork shape perception and convey force.

My Japanese heritage informs my sensitivity to reduction, ambiguity, withholding, and… more

Emergence from Multiplicity

Multiple motifs overlap within a shared space, allowing new forms and meanings to emerge beyond what each element can carry alone.

Corps de Ballet #2

Watercolor, 18"×24"

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Can't Stop Dancin'

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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Corps de Ballet #1

Watercolor, 21"×30"

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Understory

Watercolor, 11"×15"

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Irises

Watercolor, 18"×24"

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Corps de Ballet #0

Watercolor, 18"×24"
Brief gestural poses captured over time during a live model session.

Structure and Force

This series began by exploring emotional compression intensified through the withheld face, evolving into structural compression embodied in the pose, and ultimately into force itself as the primary subject.

Compression/Yield

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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Hands Covering a Face - III

Watercolor, 12" x 16"

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Hands Covering a Face - II

Watercolor, 12" x 16"

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Hands Covering a Face - I

Watercolor, 12" x 16"

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Suspended Presence

Reduced chroma, withheld detail, and stripped-down space intensify the subject's architectual presence, suspended within a transient moment.

Brief Repose

Watercolor, 22"×18"

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A Still Man

Watercolor, 17"×19"

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A Seated Man

Watercolor, 10"×17"

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Contemplation

Watercolor, 14"×19"

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Hands Covering a Face - I

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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A Gaze

Watercolor, 11"×15"

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Resonance and Extension

Surrounding elements resonate with the subject, activating the space beyond the subject.

Gaia

Watercolor, 11"×15"

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Sparks

Watercolor, 12"×16"
Art and Nature #2

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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Art and Nature #1

Watercolor, 10"×14"

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Liberation

Watercolor, 15"×22"

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Ari

Watercolor, 11"×15"
Clematis and Damselfly

Watercolor, 9"×12"

Visual Exploration

Small-scale visual explorations of reduction, ambiguity, transformation, layered reading, and transparency.

Slow-Motion/Water

6"×4", watercolor
Night

Watercolor, 4"×6"

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Two figures

Watercolor, 5"×7"

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A profile

Watercolor, 4"×6"

Faces and figures composition

Faces and figures composition primarily focuses on multi-elements composition featuring human forms. Overlapping and interlocking elements, including faces, figures, and various surface textures and colors, are deliberately placed within a compressed space to convey tension and vibration, or rhythm and harmony, depending on the goal of the work.

Corps de ballet 2

Watercolor, 18" × 24"

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Liberation

Watercolor gestural figure, 22" X 15"

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Corps de ballet 1

Watercolor, 30" x 20"

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Can't stop dancin'

12" × 16", Watercolor

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Gaia

Watercolor, 15" x 11"

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Ari

Watercolor, 14" x10"
Art and Nature #2

Watercolor, 15X11

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Art and Nature #1

14 X 10, Watercolor

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Blossoming

Blossoming, 14" X 10", Watercolor

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Mini face compositions

Mini watercolor studies, which are compositional experiments with faces, colors and textures. From top left, clockwise: 5"x5", 6"x6", 5"x7", 4"x6", 4"x6"

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Top left, Bottom right - available. Rest -unavailable.

People

People documents my family and others who caught my eyes, aspiring to reflect their characters, states of mind and energies in an expressive fashion.

Sparks

Watercolor, Self Portrait, 16" X12"
Ari

Ari, 15 X 11, Watercolor
An early afternoon

Watercolor, 8 in x 6 in
A masked man

Acrylic, 11" × 14"

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Akiko

Akiko, 12 X 9, Watercolor
Reflection

Watercolor, 11" x 15"

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Portrait of a young boy - study

12 in. x. 12 in., Acrylic on canvas
Joel

Joel, 8 X 10, Watercolor
Gestural Figure Study - Contemplation

Watercolor, 21" X 15"

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Study of a young woman's face

Study of a young woman's face, 15 X 11, Watercolor

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Gestural figure studies

Gestural figure studies are primarily based on studio live model sessions with five to fifteen minutes poses. The focus is to curve out, by brushstrokes, the mass and the gravity flowing through the body, as well as limited details for giving life to the images. Interplay of negative and positive space creates environment surrounding the figures.

A still man

Watercolor, 18" × 24"

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Brief repose

Watercolielr, 18"×24"

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Corps de ballet

Watercolor, 24x18
A sitting man

Watercolor, 18" x 12"

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Gestural figure study: Dancer (I)

Gestural figure study_Dancer I , 24 X 18, Watercolor

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Gestural figure study: Spectators

Gestural figure study: Spectator, 24 X 18, Watercolor

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A guitarist

Watercolor, 24x18 in.

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Taking a break

Watercolor, 24X18 in.

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Mini study of a gestural figure sculpture (Torso by Edgar Degas)

Watercolor, 7" x 5"

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Compression/Resistance

Watercolor, 12"×16"

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Nature

Nature is a collection of works which leverage observation of nature in daily life and travel. Elements in front of me, in my memories and imaginations are liberally combined to constitute a space and moods.

Irises

Watercolor, 24x18 in.

Available for Purchase
Colocasia

Watercolor, 30X24
Dawn in a garden

Dawn in a garden, Watercolor, 9 x 12

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Understory

Watercolor, 16 in. X 12 in.

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Flowers

Flowers, 11 X 15, Watercolor

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Clematis and Damselfly

Watercolor, 12X9 in.
Poppies & Alliums

Poppies & Alliums, 5 X 7, Watercolor
Winterscape

Winterscape, 10 X 8, Watercolor

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Pieces of nature - plants and creatures

Mini watercolor pieces depicting plants and creatures, from top left in clockwis order - A Damselfly, 5" x 7"; A Betta Fish, 4" x 6"; A Dragonfly, 4" x 6"; Licorice Flowers, 4" x 6"; Cherry and Japanese Maple, 6" x 6", November, 5" x 7"

Available for Purchase

"A Damselfly" and "Cherry and Japanese Maple" are available for purchase.
Pieces of nature - Landscape

Mini watercolor studies, which are stylistic and textural experiments utilizing landscape as the motif. From top, clockwise - Winter creek, 7" x 16"; Dawn, 4" x 6", In Arizona, 5" x 7"; A lake, 4" x 6".

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