When filmmaker Heather Lenz first came across Yayoi Kusama¡¯s art in the early 1990s, she says that there was only one catalog of the artist¡¯s work. Kusama is now the world¡¯s top-selling living female artist.
Lenz, who studied art and art history, before gaining a masters degree in filmmaking at the University of Southern California, then set out to make a film about an esoteric artist, whom she considered ¡°misunderstood and under-recognized¡± in the United States at the time.
Seventeen years after its conception, Lenz¡¯s film, ¡°Kusama: Infinity,¡± premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. It tells the story of Kusama¡¯s battles with racism, sexism and mental illness during her 70-plus years creating works of art.
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