Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s leading artists and a living legend of the international art avant-garde. Flamboyant yet profound, her oeuvre encompasses unique masterpieces in painting, sculpture, and installation, as well as mass production and popular culture. Kusama also produces playful sculpture on a monumental scale. Her first large-scale sculpture appeared in 1994, a huge, vivid yellow pumpkin covered with an optical spot pattern, which was installed at the end of a jetty on the island of Naoshima in the Seto Sea, Japan. She has since completed several major sculptural commissions—ensembles of huge, brightly hued, triffid-like plants and flowers—for public institutions in Japan and abroad. Yayoi Kusama suffers from mental illness.

Dots Obsession.

(2000)

11 balloons, vinyl dot.

The Ascension of Polkadots on the Trees.

(2006)

Circa.

(1965)

(Artist is featured in the picture.)

Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke was one of the most political of all conceptual artists. He focused closely on systems and processes. The 1960's jump-started his career. Haacke brought to the art world a new concept of viewer involvement. He asked viewers to handle objects, which at the time was a concept normally rejected by institutions. Some of Haacke's early works consisted of physical and biological systems, living animals, plants, and the states of water and the wind. His later works have dealt more with socio-political structures and the politics of art. (Art Today, Wikipedia)

MOMA Poll (1970)

two plexi-glass ballot boxes

Condensation Cube

begun 1965 - completed 2008
plexiglas and water

Helmsboro Country, 1990

silkscreen prints and photograph on wood, cardboard, paper

cigarette packet 77 x 103 x 121 cm

cigarettes 176 cm long