Yayoi Kusama was a Japanese artist known for using polka-dot motifs in such works as her “infinity net” paintings and her large pumpkin sculptures. She first gained attention in the 1960s for such installations as Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field (1965), a mirrored room whose floors were covered with hundreds of stuffed phalli that had been painted with red dots, and for unauthorized performances in New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, where in 1969 she painted dots on participants’ naked bodies in the fountain of the sculpture garden (Grand Orgy to Awaken the Dead). Her career had a revival in the 2010s when a number of her Infinity Mirror Rooms, installations usually comprising a mirrored room with hundreds of colored lights, were featured in exhibitions across the United States.
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