YAYOI KUSAMA

"The dot princess," is a nickname for Yayoi Kusama. Yayoi is a female Japanese artist. She produces extremely beautiful, fascinating, and compulsive work. In 2008 she sold a piece of work for over 5,000,000 dollars, this is a record for any living female artist. She has struggled with mental illness for her entire life. She references her mental instability with obsessive patterning (dots), this has become a trademark for Yayoi. The dots are from hallucinations she had as a young child. Poka dots sound like a really simple idea, but they anything but that to her. She refers to the dots as "infinity nets," they extend across every surface. She talks about dots extending so far they eventually would obliterate the world.

Here are a few images of several of her installation and sculptural work.





You can see more of her work at the Gagosian Gallery.
Yayoi Interview from 2008.