Japanese artist Naomi Kusama uses her struggle with mental illness to create her art . It is manifested in her exaggerated use of shapes , colors and mirrored surfaces . Kusama has been making these magical boxes since the 1960s , when she first lined a small room with mirrors and filled it with polka-dotted phallic shapes , creating what I like to imagine a brothel in the Dr. Seuss universe might look like . She has recently opened a new show at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York .
Japanese artist Naomi Kusama uses her struggle with mental illness to create her art . It is manifested in her exaggerated use of shapes , colors and mirrored surfaces . She has recently opened a new show at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York .