Contemporary Art by Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama on Display at UM
The artworks are on loan to the Montana Museum of Art & Culture as part of Visiting Masterpieces, MMAC’s ongoing program to highlight masterworks by important historic and contemporary artists in private collections. The paintings may be viewed in the Office of the President reception area located in Main Hall, which has public hours from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except during University holidays.
Scholars frequently describe Kusama’s creative practice of covering surfaces with meticulous, repetitive patterns as “obsessive.” “Wishing to See the Night Sky,” is a continuation of the large abstractions she first created after moving to New York City from her native Japan in the late ’50s. Kusama aptly referred to these early paintings as “infinity nets,” and they were a direct response to the prevailing abstract expressionism of the time. Her frequent practice of joining individual elements together into a continuous whole may evoke the forms she saw as a girl on her family’s seed farm and flower nursery.