Each painting places decades of work into dialogue within singular canvases, the exhibition progressing like 30 variations on a fugue, from Kusama's «Infinity Nets» of the late 1950s that spread like Spanish moss, to her zoetic polka dots, saturated chromatic fantasias, and obsessive reproductions of single shapes. (brooklynrail.org)
She first received public recognition in New York when her richly - colored canvases holding single shapes were prominently featured in the New Image Painting exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 1968 with works by artists such as Susan Rothenberg and Joe Zucker. (momaps1.org)