The Slovakian artist Mária Bartuszová was born in Prague in 1938, but moved back to Slovakia’s second-largest city, Kosice, when she was 23. Bartuszová was already an artist, but the idea for her white sculptures came in Slovakia, when she was playing at home with her daughter. It dawned on Bartuszová that she could pour plaster into rubber balloons and make abstract shapes. Later, she manipulated the sculptures further, submerging them in water and producing objects that were sensual and disturbing and delicate. Bartuszová died in 1996, and though she produced 500 sculptures during her lifetime, she remains relatively unknown. This retrospective gives her luminous work its due. —Elena Clavarino