Lynda Benglis - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Dedalus Foundation, Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year One: Curated by Phong Bui, October 17 - December 15, 2013, pp. 130 – 131 (another example exhibited)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Lynda Benglis
    Born 1941, Lake Charles, Louisiana

    1964 BFA Newcomb College, New Orleans

    Selected museum exhibitions:
    Aspen Art Museum (2016); Storm King Art Center, New York (2015); Rhode Island School of Design (2011); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2009); Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2003); Harwood Museum of Art, Taos (1995, 2019); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (1991); Jacksonville Art Museum (1981); The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (1973); Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971); Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston (1969)
    Selected honors: Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, The International Sculpture Center (2017); American Academy of Arts and Letters (2012); Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, College Art Association (2011); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1975)
    Selected public collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Anderson Collection at Stanford University; Art Institute of Chicago; Brooklyn Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Arts; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Jewish Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art

    Since the 1960s, Lynda Benglis has created unique sculptural forms in a diverse array of materials through corporeal gestures of pouring, throwing, and molding in three-dimensional space. Benglis’s artistic practice is simultaneously playful and visceral, organic, and abstract, creating work grounded in her continuous investigation of sensory experience. An abstract work with figurative connotations in its title and form, Figure 5 is mounted on the wall, in contrast to those sited on the floor. Its rough, roiling surface of cast aluminum contrasts in material and texture with the smooth, soft surfaces of her earlier latex and foam sculptures.

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Figure 5

cast aluminum
89 x 61 x 27 in. (226.1 x 154.9 x 68.6 cm.)
Executed in 2009, this work is number 1 of an edition of 3.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019