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Yayoi Kusama, “Butterfly,” 1985, silkscreen in five colors, 177/8  by 207/8  inches, edition of 100, photo courtesy of Peter Blum Gallery, NYC.

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YAYOI KUSAMA PRINTS AT PETER BLUM GALLERY w/1 cut

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NEW YORK CITY — Peter Blum Gallery presents the exhibition “Yayoi Kusama Prints from 1982 to 2004,” on view through July 28, at Peter Blum SoHo, 99 Wooster Street. This is the first survey of Kusama’s prints in the United States. On view will be a selection of more than 20 years of her print works, including etchings, lithographs and silkscreens.

Kusama’s prints reflect ideas and themes found throughout her entire body of work. Her prints, like her work in other mediums, reveal her vision of the world. Kusama has said that from a young age she suffered from hallucinations, seeing auras and dots, and hearing voices from plants and animals. Rather than battle with these visual and audible illusions, when painted and drew them.

As a result, her characteristic imagery of infinity nets, monochrome colors, repetitive and abstract forms developed, and was often incorporated in her prints, installation, sculpture, painting, collage and performance. Additionally, the repetitive process of printmaking and the idea of multiples appeal to her aesthetic.

Kusama was born in 1929 in Matsumoto-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan. She lives and works in Tokyo. She has exhibited extensively internationally, including a significant solo exhibition in 1989 at the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, and a major retrospective that traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, in 1998–1999. In addition, Kusama was the representative artist for Japan in the 1993 Venice Biennial.

For additional information, www.peterblumgallery.com/soho or 212-343-0441.