Mirroring the times, Kusama’s performance art explored antiwar, antiestablishment, and free-love ideas. She became a central figure in the New York avant-garde, and her work was exhibited alongside that of such artists as Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol. Her paintings from that period anticipated the emerging Minimalist movement, but her work soon transitioned to Pop art and performance art. Such works explored the physical and psychological boundaries of painting, with the seemingly endless repetition of the marks creating an almost hypnotic sensation for both the viewer and the artist. Those consisted of thousands of tiny marks obsessively repeated across large canvases without regard for the edges of the canvas, as if they continued into infinity.
Her early work in New York City included what she called “infinity net” paintings.
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