33 Facts About Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis was born on October 25,1941 and is an American sculptor and visual artist known especially for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures.

Lynda Benglis maintains residences in New York City, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Kastellorizo, Greece, and Ahmedabad, India.

Lynda Benglis later described these travels as having been important to her work.

Lynda Benglis was my godmother, as well as my grandmother.

Lynda Benglis's mother was from Mississippi and was a preacher's daughter.

Lynda Benglis earned a BFA degree in 1964 from Newcomb College in New Orleans, which was then the women's college of Tulane University, where she studied ceramics and painting.

Lynda Benglis went on to study painting at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.

Lynda Benglis later stated that she married Hart to help him avoid the draft.

Lynda Benglis took a job as an assistant to Klaus Kertess at the Bykert Gallery before moving on to work at the Paula Cooper Gallery.

Lynda Benglis's work is noted for an unusual blend of organic imagery and confrontation with newer media incorporating influences such as Barnett Newman and Andy Warhol.

Lynda Benglis has been a professor or visiting artist at the University of Rochester, Princeton University, University of Arizona, School of Visual Arts.

Lynda Benglis felt underrepresented in the male-run artistic community and so confronted the "male ethos" in a series of magazine advertisements satirizing pin-up girls, Hollywood actresses, and traditional depictions of nude female models in canonical works of art.

Lynda Benglis chose the medium of magazine advertisements as it allowed her complete control of an image rather than allowing it to be run through critical commentary.

Lynda Benglis eventually cast five lead sculptures of the dildo that she posed with on the Artforum cover, each entitled Smile, one for each of the Artforum editors who wrote in to complain about her ad.

Lynda Benglis's work is deemed important for its meticulous grounding in process and materials used.

In December 2016, Lynda Benglis had her very first solo show in Italy, titled "Benglis and the Baroque", at Thomas Brambilla gallery.

Lynda Benglis's purpose was to engage in a dialogue with the architecture of Toyo Ito, the Museum's designer, and to express her fondness for Mexico.

Lynda Benglis created a series of prints as part of a collaboration with master printer Stan Baden with the Print Research Institute of North Texas at the University of North Texas.

Lynda Benglis turned to video art in 1971 in order to explore a media that could more easily communicate her feminist politics.

Lynda Benglis employs various technical manipulations of video as a medium to complicate the boundaries of visual form and highlight mediations of the self, including a recursive technique by filming television screens playing videos that she had filmed previously, often several layers deep.

Consequently, Lynda Benglis's work destabilizes what are traditionally believed to be video's "inherent properties" such as liveness and "real" time, spatial orientation and relations, and separation of creator and creation.

In 1971, Lynda Benglis began to collaborate with Robert Morris, and produced her first video work, Mumble.

Lynda Benglis completed four other videos in 1972, namely Noise, Document, Home Tapes Revised, and On Screen.

In Noise Lynda Benglis employs mechanical reproduction and through looped feedback tapes.

In doing so, Lynda Benglis emphasizes that video as a medium is based upon mechanical reproduction, thus subverting the classical notion of authenticity and reproduction in fine art.

Lynda Benglis' works distributed by the Video Data Bank include:.

Between 1969 and 1995 Lynda Benglis held over 75 solo exhibitions of her work both in the United States and abroad.

Lynda Benglis's work is held in collections including The Guggenheim, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the High Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Victoria and others.

Lynda Benglis won a Yale-Norfolk Summer School Scholarship in 1963, and a Max Beckmann scholarship in 1965.

Lynda Benglis has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, one in 1979 and the other in 1990.

Lynda Benglis has been awarded a Minos Beach Art Symposium grant, a grant from the Delphi Art Symposium, a grant from the Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, all in 1988.

Lynda Benglis received a grant from the National Council of Art Administration in 1989.

In 2000 Lynda Benglis was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Kansas City Art Institute.