Lynda Benglis
Elephant Necklace, 2017
White bronze sculpture cast at Bollinger Atelier, from a unique ceramic work produced at the Taos, New Mexico studio of Hank Saxe and Cynthia Patterson
8 1/2 × 11 × 10 1/2 in (21.6 × 27.9 × 26.7 cm)
Edition of twenty with seven APs, each signed and numbered
Published by Lisa Ivorian-Jones for the New Museum
Price Upon Request
In celebration of the New Museum’s fortieth anniversary and its tenth year on the Bowery, Lynda Benglis has created Elephant Necklace (2017). The limited edition deepens the artist’s history with the Museum, which proudly presented her first retrospective in 2011.
Elephant Necklace (2017) is a highly polished nickel-bronze cast of a unique ceramic created in the Taos, New Mexico studio of Hank Saxe and Cynthia Patterson, longtime collaborators of the artist. Benglis notes that Elephant Necklace series is reminiscent of blown-out tires found on the side of the freeway. “Elephant Necklaces are artifacts that I imagine as extrusions of life,” she says. “They could be described as fragments from mammoths’ trunks of an ancient time. Or perhaps they resemble strange umbilical cords cut after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden.”
About Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis (American, b. 1941) is a sculptor best known for her poured latex and foam works. Born in Lake Charles, LA, Benglis earned a BFA from Newcomb College in New Orleans in 1964, and studied at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York during the following year.
Benglis seeks to challenge a male-dominated discourse in art by creating work that is sensual, body-oriented, and decorative. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY; The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN; and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. She is represented by the Cheim & Read gallery in New York.
The artist currently works in New York, NY, and Santa Fe, NM.
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