Lynda Benglis

American, b. 1941

Untitled
1992-1993

Earthenware
Overall Dimensions
Gift of the Kathryn C. Wanlass Foundation
2016.73

Throughout her career, Benglis continued as a sculptor, but began incorporating other media, such as photos and videos. Benglis often manipulated her video recordings, destroying the “inherent qualities” of videos, such as time, perspective, and space, and always tried to have viewers question what they were seeing. From the beginning of her art career, Benglis confronted issues of gender, identity, and sexuality through her art, with some of her more controversial works revisioning the art historical tradition of the female nude.

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This object has the following keywords:

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• blue
• gray
• green
• green colors - A range of green colors resembling the color of green pigment.
• grey
• texture

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Women, Surrealism, and Abstraction , 8/25/2020 - 7/9/2022

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