Wake - Seattle, WA - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

A nearby plaque to this abstract sculpture reads:

Wake, 2004
Weathering steel
Richard Serra
American, born 1939
Seattle Art Museum, purchased in part
with funds from Susan and Jeffrey
Brotman, Virginia and Bagley Wright,
Ann Wyckoff and the Modern Art
Acquisition Fund

"Each Module is identical and comprised of two S-sections, which are inverted in relationship to each other."

"What's important is you moving between them, through them, and around them. as they undulate; it's your body moving in relation to their surface that moves."

Richard Serra

The museum website also highlights this sculpture and it reads:

For Richard Serra, space is a substance as tangible as sculpture. He uses materials and scale to alter perception and to engage the body, encouraging consciousness of our relation to space. The towering, curved steel forms of Wake were achieved with computer imaging and machines that manufacture ship hulls, including a demilitarized machine that once made French nuclear submarines. It is composed of five identical modules, each with two S-shaped sections positioned in inverted relation to one another—gently curving serpentines of convex and concave parts that suggest tidal waves or profiles of battleships. The surface of acid-washed, weather-proof steel reinforces this industrial effect. Wake's powerful silhouette belies a complex configuration of parts: the whole cannot be known at once, only experienced with physical movement and progressively over time.

10 plates, 5 sets of locked toroid forms, weatherproof steel, each set, overall: 14 ft. 1 1/4 in. x 48 ft. 4 in. x 6 ft. 4 3/8 in.; overall installation: 14 ft. 1/4 in. H. x 125 ft. L x 46 ft. W. ; plate thickness 2"; weight: 30 tons (each plate), Purchased with funds from Jeffrey and Susan Brotman, Virginia and Bagley Wright, Ann Wyckoff and the Modern Art Acquisition Fund, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2004.94, © Richard Serra

TITLE: Wake ARTIST(S): Richard Serra DATE: 2004 MEDIUM: Weathering steel CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 56490005 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park 100 University Street Seattle, Washington 98101 Accession Number: 2004.94 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: This large, abstract sculpture looks to be in the same condition as when first displayed in 2004.

Visit Instructions:
Please give the date of your visit, your impressions of the sculpture, and at least ONE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Add any additional information you may have, particularly any personal observations about the condition of the sculpture.

Recent Visits/Logs:

Date Logged Log   09/22/2022 The Burrow visited it