3 Contemporary artists by zoelieyi

YAYOI KUSAMA

BORN:1929

LIVES:TOKYO

YAYOI KUSAMA PREFERS TO DESCRIBE HER ART AS SELF-THERAPY. FOR 50 YEARS SHE HAS CHANNELLED HER OBESSIONALNEUROSIS INTO " DRIVEN IMAGES" OF POLKA DOTS, FOOD AND SEX.

"IF IT WERE NOT FOR ART, I WOULD HAVE KILLED MYSELF A LONG TIME AGO."

HELENA ALMEIDA

BORN:1934

LIVES:LISBON

SINCE THE 1970S HELENA ALMEIDA HAS CREATED WORKS THAT INTERTWINE DRAWING, PERFORMANCE, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY, INVOLVING SUCH TACTICS AS REPETITION AND SERIALITY, BUT WITH HER OWN COMPLEX MOTIVATIONS.

DURING THE 1990S ALMEIDA LAUNCHED AN EXTENSIVE SERIES OF INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE RELATIONSHIP ESPECIALLY COMPLEX IN RECENT WORKS INCORPORATING MIRRORS THAT THREATEN TO SWALLOW UP HER LIMBS AND PERFORATE THE TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE.

LAURIE SIMMONS

BORN:1949

LIVES:AMERICAN

SINCE THE MID 1970S, SIMMONS HAS STAGED SCENES FOR HER CAMERA WITH DOLLS, VENTRILOQUIST DUMMIES, OBJECTS ON LEGS AND OCCASIONALLY PEOPLE, TO CREATE IMAGES WITH INTENSIVELY PSYCHOLOGICAL SUBTEXTS.

BY ZOELIEYI