Lynda Benglis (1941) - Anchor

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Gravure et aquatinte réhaussée à l'aquarelle
Signée au crayon et numérotée

Parfait état

Envoi international soigné

Born in Louisiana in 1941, she moved to New York in 1964, where she trained as a painter in the vein of Abstract Expressionism. While Benglis admires the gestural style of this older generation of artists, she quickly begins to adapt their methods to more extravagant ends. Using a broad range of materials in acidic tones, her works capture the behavior of a fluid substance in action. Alongside peers like Eva Hesse or Richard Serra, she lets the fabrication process dictate the form of her finished works, handling a supple material that “can and will take its own form.”

Benglis invented a new format with her famed “pourings,” which resemble paintings but detach from the wall to occupy the space of sculpture. As early as 1969, she extends Jackson Pollock’s famous dripping technique into three dimensions, pouring liquid rubber directly onto the floor. Rejecting vertical orientation, as well as the canvas, the frame, and the brush, the “pourings” push painting-from-a-easel conventions to the point of making them collapse.

"I wasn’t breaking away from painting but trying to redefine what it was."

Her works are found in numerous public collections, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, and Tate Modern.