Chicago really has a true gem. The WNDR Museum is a site to marvled for it’s immersive experience in visual electronical arts. WNDR partnered with Chicago creative coalition The New Vanguard, for a program dedicated to uplifting and supporting Chicago BIPOC artists. Nikko Washington launched the program with a hit installation, and we are announcing today the second artist-acclaimed fashion designer Chesley Sanders.

Washing uses the medium of denim to tell the story of African Americans’ contribution to fashion in American history - related to the invention of the color indigo and jeans/trousers.

Coming in May, the U.S. debut of the yellow Dots Obsession, a three-story immersive infinity installation by the globally iconic Yayoi Kusama, on Friday, May 12. Featuring a series of floating yellow and black polka dots alongside walk-in and peep-in installations, Dots Obsession will fill WNDR’s atrium and transport visitors into Kusama’s obsession with polka dots, repetition, celestial bodies and the experience of the infinite.

“Since my childhood, I have always made works with polka dots. Earth, moon, sun and human beings all represent dots; a single particle among billions,” Kusama said.

Dots Obsession was created by Yayoi Kusama in 2008 and has been exhibited around the world. After making its debut in London, the work has appeared in Lithuania, Singapore and Australia, and was most recently on view at Museum MACAN in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2018. This will be the first time that yellow Dots Obsession will be installed in the United States.

The installation of Dots Obsession furthers WNDR Museum’s commitment to making fine art accessible and approachable, notably featuring the Midwest’s only Kusama Infinity Room, Let’s Survive Forever, since WNDR’s inception in 2018. Serving as a longtime centerpiece of its flagship Chicago location, Let’s Survive Forever is slated to close at WNDR Museum Chicago on April 30 before traveling to WNDR Boston which opens this summer at 500 Washington Street.

General admission tickets to WNDR Museum Chicago start at $32 and must be purchased in advance at www.wndrchicago.com.

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