“In my attic studio, I am carefree, wild, experimental, intoxicated by color harmonies and the sun-drenched tranquility and protection of being in the South of France,” said the artist Robert Kushner in 2020. “Or is it the South of California?” Kushner has celebrated the beauty of the world since the 1970s, when his career began. One of the founders of the Pattern and Decoration Movement, he explores forms of art historically marginalized as feminine, blurring the line between art and decoration. “Kushner’s art goes against the prevailing trend toward the anti- or nonaesthetic, which takes revenge on life,” Donald Kuspit wrote in Artforum, in 2009. He started this latest series in 2023, during a visit to the Woodman Residency Foundation, in Antella, Italy. Painting the gardens and fields around him, as well as details of the Woodman home, he considered the relationship between exterior and interior. Kushner added Japanese textiles to the series when completing it in his New York studio. —Jeanne Malle