Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958 - 1968


December 13, 1998 - March 7, 1999
Postwar Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's influential and daring work anticipated questions about the separation between art and life still being asked by some of today's most important artists. Kusama's paintings, collages, sculptures, and environmental works all share an obsession with repetition, pattern, and accumulation, interests that began with hallucinations she experienced as a young girl. This exhibition focused on Kusama's time in New York in order to help retrieve a chapter of art history that was all but forgotten.