YAYOI KUSAMA (B. 1929)

“Yayoi Kusama’s works from the 1980s and 1990s differ from that of the 1950s and 1960s because of her insistence on an aesthetic of the handmade over that of the machine and, concomitantly, the self-referential abstraction inherent in her signature motifs … (which was) as if Kusama has realized that her identity has finally been established and the time has arrived for its free proliferation and franchise.” - Laura Hoptman