Medium. Accession number. Credit Line. Not on View. 1979. Chicken wire, plaster, cotton bunting, gesso, and gold leaf. ... Henry T. Hopkins was head of the Modern Art Museum, and he allowed me to pour directly on the floor in the corner. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/arts/design/25benglis.html Lynda Benglis What a nice way of putting it! Lynda Benglis. Now is the most well-known of these works, and made a significant impact on the field of video art and critical theory. 2005.61. 1999 Untitled 1971 For Bob 1979 Pour Daum #3 1978 Little Pinch No image available. My first wall pieces were all kind of open. Benglis (b. in 1941, Lake Charles, Louisiana) was the first artist to make sculptures out of paint, removing the barrier between traditional painting and sculpting. 1969 Night Sherbet 1968-1971 Untitled No image available. Lynda Benglis is an American artist best known for her use of poured sculptural forms made from wax, latex, metal, and foam. Dimensions. This is the case of Lynda Benglis, an artist who found new methods to create beautiful sculptures and who made a strong statement as a feminist in art history. plaster over wire mesh and cotton with gold leaf and paint. Dimensions. Benglis is highly regarded for her pour paintings and sculptures, which feature bright, dried puddles of latex paint rolling across the floor or areas of abstract, vaguely anthropomorphic bronze. They gesture towards Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalist contestations … Lynda Benglis In 1969-‐70 Lynda Benglis began working with poured latex, translaHng the drip and pour methods of Jackson Pollock, Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler into sculpture ArHst Lynda Benglis painHng a floor w. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. 1972 Document No image available. Benglis is perhaps best known for her pour paintings and sculptures, which feature bright, dried puddles of latex paint rolling across the floor or areas of abstract, vaguely anthropomorphic bronze. They gesture towards Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalist contestations … With the paper pieces, I thought of them like vases, but open at either end. overall: 48.2 x 27.9 x 16.5 cm (19 x 11 x 6 1/2 in.) The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund … 26 x 14 x 6 3/4 in. View Lynda Benglis’s 345 artworks on artnet. Pour Daum #2, 1979. Lynda Benglis. Collection > Lynda Benglis > Pour Daum #3. I thought of spirits crawling inside or moving through them. 1977 Lagniappe: Bayou Babe No image available. Share Share this on Facebook; Share this on Twitter; Share this on Google Plus; Share this on Tubmlr; Medium. In 1974, Lynda Benglis created one of the iconic works of recent art history, Centrefold.The work was presented as an advertisement in Artforum and featured the artist naked, save for a pair of sunglasses, her body oiled, her hip thrust forward, holding an enormous dildo. Lynda Benglis made several video pieces in the 1970s, when she was working at the University of Rochester and could use the school's equipment. See available sculpture, prints and multiples, and paintings for sale and learn about the artist.