Tender are the Stairs to Heaven, a floor to ceiling ladder made of fibre optics appears to rise from an infinite distance below the floor and continue its assent into perpetuity – continually chasing the spectre of infinity.
The predominately white, metallic silver and black paintings incorporate optical intensity in expanding and contracting fields of obsessively repeated pattern that is obliterating of the subject.
Kusama has pursued these themes since her earliest works, representations of visions which have beset her since childhood.
Kusama was born in 1929 and moved to New York in 1958 where she was a pioneering member of the postwar avant-garde. While in New York, Kusama had close associations with Joseph Cornell and Donald Judd as well as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Carolee Schneemann.
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery 26 April – 19 May, 2007
