Lynda Benglis: A Sculpture Survey 1969 - 2004

Lyndia Benglis

OVERLEAF

Jacks No. 2 Cast aluminum, thirty-one pieces, dimensions and placement variable, approximately 3 x 6 inches (7.6 x 16.2 cm.), 1997

Lyndia Benglis

ESSAY BY RICHARD MARSHALL CHEIM & READ

NEW YORK 2004

Embryo II Purified pigmented beeswax, damar resin on masonite,

36 x 5 x 5 inches (91.4 x 12.7 x 12.7 cm.), 1967

Karen Purified pigmented beeswax, damar resin on masonite,

36 x 5 x 3 inches (91.4 x 12.7 x 7.6 cm.), 1972

Night Sherbet B Pigmented polyurethane foam, 6 5/ 16 x 36 1/ 4 x 18 7/ 8 inches (16 x 91.79 x 47.9 cm.), 1968

Lead, 57 1/ 2 x 65 1/ 2 x 64 1/ 4 inches (146.1 x 166.4 x 163.2 cm.), 1969

Quartered Meteor

Night Sherbet A Pigmented polyurethane foam, 6 11/ 16 x 54 5/ 16 x 34 5/ 8 inches (17 x 138 x 87.9 cm.), 1968

Wing Cast aluminum, 67 x 59 1/ 4 x 60 inches (170.2 x 150.5 x 152.4 cm.), 1970

Proto Knot Sparkle, paint, plaster, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 29 x 20 1/ 2 x 7 inches (73.7 x 52.1 x 17.8 cm.), 1971

Untitled Sparkle, paint, plaster, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 51 x 32 x 9 inches (125.5 x 81.3 x 22.9 cm.), 1972

Bravo Copper, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 27 x 10 x 10 inches (68.6 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm.), 1970

Uno Copper, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 51 x 29 x 14 inches (129.5 x 73.7 x 35.6), 1974

Yankee Aluminum, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 39 x 50 x 12 inches (99.1 x 127 x 30.5 cm.), 1974

Chicago Caryatid No. 4 gold leaf, plaster, cotton bunting, aluminum screen, 45 x 16 x 9 inches (114.3 x 40.6 x 22.9 cm.), 1979

Panhard Copper, aluminum screen, 72 x 39 x 18 inches (182.9 x 99.1 x 45.7 cm.), 1989

Bolero Bronze, aluminum screen, 70 x 39 x 16 1/ 2 inches (177.9 x 99.1 x 41.9 cm.), 1991–92

46 x 77 x 13 inches (116.8 x 195.6 x 33 cm.), 1995–96

Silicone bronze, aluminum screen

Raptor

Paego Glazed ceramic, 12 1/ 2 x 17 x 14 inches (31.8 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm.), 1995–96

Ghost Dance/Pedmarks Bronze with gold leaf, 84 x 36 x 25 inches (213.4 x 91.4 x 63.5 cm.), 1995–96

OVERLEAF

Cloak-Wave/Pedmarks Bronze, black patina, 85 1/ 2 x 86 x 42 1/ 2 inches (217.2 x 86 x 108 cm.), 1998

Nine Spot Field Cast silver, nine pieces pieces, dimensions and placement variable, approximately 7 x 5 x 6 inches (17.9 x 12.7 x 15.2 cm.), 1999

Web Silicone bronze, 14 3/ 4 x 13 1/ 2 x 7 1/ 4 inches (37.5 x 34.3 x 18.4 cm.), 1999

Untitled Crystal (glass), 12 x 12 x 6 1/ 2 inches (30.5 x 30.5 x 16.5 cm.), 2001

Summer Dreams Cast bronze fountain, 30 x 27 x 25 inches (76.2 x 68.6 x 63.5 cm.), 2003

Bikini Incandescent Column Paper, wire, incandescent bulbs, electricity, 162 x 72 x 72 inches (411.5 x 182.9 x 182.9 cm.), 2001

Lyndia Benglis 1941 Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana EDUCATION

1964 B.F.A., Newcomb College SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1969 University of Rhode Island, Kingston 1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (February) Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas Galerie Hans Muller, Cologne 1971 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas

1975 Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York College at Oneonta (January 29–February 26) The Kitchen, New York (November 8–15) Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (November 8–December 3) The Texas Gallery, Houston 1976 Paula Cooper Gallery, Los Angeles (May 1–22) 1977 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (September–October)

1978 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (November 11–December 8)

Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

1979 The Texas Gallery, Houston (January 17–February 10)

1972 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco 1973 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (February 2–March 10) Lynda Benglis Video Tapes, Video Gallery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (March 13–25) Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon (June) The Texas Gallery, Houston (November 11–December 12) Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, California The Clocktower, New York (December 6–January 20, 1974) 1974 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (May 4–29) Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco (October 29–November 23)

Dart Gallery, Chicago Real Art Ways, New Haven Hansen-Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco (October 23–January 17, 1980) Georgia State University, Atlanta (October 26–November 16) Galerie Albert Baronian, Belgium 1980 University of South Florida, Tampa (February 8–March 6) Lowe Art Museum, Miami (March 19–April 27) Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (February 22–April 12) Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon The Texas Gallery, Houston (June 14–July 9) Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (September 16–October 11) David Heath Gallery, Atlanta

Chatham College, Pittsburgh (November) Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan 1981 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson (April 26–May 5) Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels Dart Gallery, Chicago (October 9–November 4) The Texas Gallery, Houston (December 5–January 2, 1982) Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida (October 19–December 18) 1982 Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis (January 9–February 6) Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (January 15–February 20)

Heath Gallery, Atlanta (November 16–December 14) 1986 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco (April 3–May 3) Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans 1987 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (March 25–April 18) Landfall Press, New York Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (May 16–June 20) 1988 Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville (April 9–May 15) Full Gross Gallery, San Francisco (December 6–January 7) 1989 Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans (April 1–May 10)

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (October 30–November 27)

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (July 8–August 12)

Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco (November 3–November 27)

Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa

1983 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (June 17–July 30) Dart Gallery, Chicago (November 5–December 7) 1984 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (February 22–April 14) The Texas Gallery, Houston (September 11–October 20) Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans (October 20–November 4) 1985 Works in Glass, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (March 23–May 10) Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle (August 2–31) Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe (August 24–September 14) Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (September 4–September 29) 1991 Dual Natures, Travelling Exhibition: The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (January 29–March 31); Contemporary Arts Center & New Orleans Museum of Art (June 1–August 4); San Jose Museum of Art (September 15–December 1)

New Works in Glass, S. Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (September 28–October 26)

Recent Work, Heath Gallery, Atlanta (January 27–March 29)

Glass, Dart Gallery, Chicago (October 18–November 10)

New Works, Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans (May 31–June 30)

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (September 5–October 5) 1992 Heath Gallery, Atlanta (November 17–January 10, 1993) 1993 Clothed and Unclothed: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (January 15–February 15) From the Furnace, Auckland City Art Center, Auckland, New Zealand (October) Ceramic Sculpture, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (March 8–April 15) Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (October) 1994 Wax Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (February 4–February 26) Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings, Heath Gallery, Atlanta (May 21–July 30) Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, The Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, New Mexico (December 9–February 4, 1995); Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (November 16-January 14, 1996); University Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (January–February, 1996) 1995 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, (October 7–October 31) Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (November) Lynda Benglis: Recent Wall & Glass Sculpture, Heath Gallery, Atlanta (September 16–November 4) Lynda Benglis in conjunction with Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (November 16–January 14, 1996)

1996 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego (November 2–December 21) New Monotypes: Landscapes & Fetishes, Quartet Editions, New York (November 6–December 21) 1997 Selected Wall Reliefs, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York Hidden Agenda, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India (June 9–13) Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany (November) 1998 Lynda Benglis, Chimera Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany (February 7–March 29); Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich (May–June); Charim Klocker Gallery, Vienna (June 17–July 31) Lynda Benglis-Recent Sculpture & Screening of the 1973 Video Female Sensibility Cheim & Read, New York (September 12–October 10) Dynamic Silhouette Kappatos Gallery, Athens (December 2–January 23, 1999) 1999 Lynda Benglis, Small Works, Galerie Simonne Stern, Los Angeles (May 1–June 1) Lynda Benglis, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York (August) Lynda Benglis, New Works, Cheim & Read, New York (October) 2000 Lynda Benglis, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Lynda Benglis, Meadows Museum, Shreveport, Louisiana Curated by Michael Klein (March)

Lynda Benglis, A Decade of Ideas, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle (October 12–December 2) Lynda Benglis: Hot Spots, Texas Gallery, Houston (November 18–December 12) 2001 Echos, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

New Work, Toomey Turrell Gallery, San Francisco 2002 Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (January 8–February 16) Lynda Benglis Soft Off, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (April 18–May 31) 2003 Lynda Benglis, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (December–June, 2004) Toomey Tourell, San Francisco (November 13–January 3, 2004) 2004 Cheim & Read, New York, (February 26–April 3) PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

AWARDS

1963 Yale-Norfolk Scholarship 1965 Max Backman Scholarship, The Brooklyn Museum 1975 Guggenheim Fellowship 1976 Artpark Grant Australian Art Council Award 1979 National Endowment for the Arts Grant 1988 Minos Beach Art Symposium Delphi Art Symposium Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

1989 National Council of Art Administration

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

1990 National Endowment for the Arts

Cranbrook Design Center, Detroit

2000 Honorary Doctorate, Kansas City Art Institute

The Denver Museum of Art, Denver Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Rokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan MoCA, Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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