Yayoi Kusama - Wikipedia
WEBYayoi Kusama (草間 彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.
No. Red A, 1960 - Grey Art Museum
WEBKusama, Yayoi. No. Red A, 1960. Before becoming a germinal figure in performance and installation art, Yayoi Kusama was one of the most original painters of the late 1950s and early ’60s. Her repetitive designs derive from the hallucinations she began suffering as a teenager, seeing dots and patterns covering everything around her.
DOT DOT DOT: THE LIFEWORK OF YAYOI KUSAMA - Artforum
WEBTiny, old, dressed in a red embroidered silk jacket, loose trousers, and sneakers, her long black hair free-falling down her back, she stood surrounded by attendants like some marvelous glass ornament enveloped by protective cotton.
Yayoi Kusama’s extraordinary survival story - BBC
WEBSep 26, 2018 · The Japanese artist famed for her Instagrammable artworks overcame childhood trauma, prejudice and mental illness to become a sensation late in life, writes Cath Pound. Yayoi Kusama is the...
Yayoi Kusama Art, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBKusama still seeks the limelight and continues to insist on being photographed with her work. Wearing her signature red wig and polka dot garments of her own making, Kusama's personality has become just as infatuating as her art.
Understanding Yayoi Kusama through 6 Pivotal Artworks | Artsy
WEBJun 21, 2018 · But Kusama’s early sculptures went beyond symbolizing her psychological state. They also influenced the burgeoning Pop art movement, which used household objects and the repetition of images and forms to …
Yayoi Kusama. Accumulation No. 1. 1962 - MoMA
WEBAug 22, 2015 · Accumulation No. 1 is the first in an ongoing series of presciently feminist sculptures by Kusama. When the twenty-nine-year-old artist arrived in New York from Japan in 1958, she had already developed what she called an “infinity net” motif: a signature pattern of interlocking cellular forms that …
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | Hirshhorn Museum | Smithsonian
WEBThe first publication to focus on Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms, this richly illustrated volume includes insightful essays by Mika Yoshitake, Alexander Dumbadze, and Gloria Sutton, as well as an interview with the artist by Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s director.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at Seattle Art Museum - SAM
WEBYayoi Kusama reclining on Accumulation No. 2 (1962), 1962, visible in background are Accumulation of Faces No. 2 (1962) and posters for Tentoonstelling Nul at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1962, and Recent Painting: Yayoi Kusama at Stephen Radich Gallery, New York, 1961, Photo: Hal Reiff.
Yayoi Kusama | Whitney Museum of American Art
WEBBright red polka-dotted forms nestled in the grass like a herd of otherworldly abstractions, transforming the pier and its spectacular urban skyline. Support for Yellow Trees provided by DDG Partners.
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