Kusama began painting her large-scale Infinity Net paintings in the 1950s, when she moved to the United States from her native Japan. This series of paintings was first created during a time when abstract expressionism was still the dominant style.
Kusama speaks of two concepts: obsession and accumulation. While from afar, the work’s composition appears consistently uniform, upon closer observation, the surface reveals the materiality of the paint application and the individual nature of the repeating impasto elements. The surfaces of her Infinity Net paintings undulate with dynamic depth and texture.