Kusama Yayoi

Japanese, Japanese, 1929 - 2026

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A fine, dense marigold-yellow net weaves around dark dots in this horizontal, abstract painting. Most of the painting is yellow, and the spots are irregularly shaped, they vary in size, and they are loosely arranged in twelve columns. The columns bleed into each other to create undulating waves and swirls across the canvas.
Kusama Yayoi, Infinity Nets Yellow, 1960, oil on canvas, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2002.37.1

Infinity Nets Yellow

Kusama Yayoi · 1960 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2002.37.1

The sculpture is a rectangular box filled with a three-dimensional arrangement of irregularly shaped, elongated objects with a metallic silver finish and black spots. They resemble spotted worms or maggots. In the center of these shapes is a section of silver mesh or wire in a honeycomb shape. Beyond the wire, we can see a section of purple with dots of red, yellow, green, and blue. Around the edge of this central section is a tangle of silver wires. The box on the outside of the sculpture is black with thin white geometric patterns running across it.
Kusama Yayoi, Fortress of Stars, 1988, mixed media, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Anthony T. Podesta, Washington DC, 1998), 2015.19.3942

Fortress of Stars

Kusama Yayoi · 1988 · mixed media ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3942