Kaari Upson, Rising Star Whose Work Evoked Strange Psychological States, Is Dead at 49

Kaari Upson, a Los Angeles–based artist whose work hints at eerie forms of loss and twinning, has died at 49. Margot Norton, a New Museum curator who organized a 2017 solo show of Upson’s work, announced the news on Instagram on Thursday, saying that the artist had died of metastatic cancer on Wednesday.
Upson’s sculptures, videos, and performances have been seen widely in world-class biennials and major solo shows over the past decade. They enlist inanimate objects, often ones