Yayoi Kusama

The idea for the Illustrious Women series came to me in early 2017. It seemed there was a collective need to celebrate the feminine, and I wanted to draw attention to and educate myself about the many women who have gone before me- women who lived the lives they wanted to and bettered the world in the process. Yayoi Kusama Original gouache painting on 100% cotton paper Paper is approximately 5x6 inches; shown in 10x12 frames Signed on reverse Unframed Yayoi Kusama has been making art for decades and continues to do so today, at almost ninety, from her studio near the mental hospital where she has lived for the past 40 years. This prolific artist with her signature bright bob has created public and commercial art, sculpture, installations, illustration, painting, fashion poetry, novels, films, and performance art. She is well-known for her obsession with dots, which she has seen in hallucinations since childhood and which she uses to explore the idea of self-obliteration. Of her dot