About the Art:
Wing
1970
Cast aluminum
67 x 59 ¼ x 60 inches
Helis Foundation and the Frierson Art Fund
Lynda Benglis Wing sculpture was created with the dripping and pouring technique directly on an armature installed on the museum wall. She called this technique “fallen paintings”. It flows off the wall in undulating and mesmerizing waves engaging into the space of the viewer. This is Benglis’s way of “engaging all of the senses to highlight female strength and explore the way we experience the through the body”. Wing is one of the largest and most significant works by Benglis.
About the Artist:
Lynda Benglis (American, b. 1941) was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. She is an American sculptor and visual artist and is known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures. In 1964, she moved to New York where she trained as an Abstract Expressionist painter. But very soon after, she invented a new genre by pouring medium that resembled paintings but came off the surface to occupy the space of sculpture. Extending the “pour” technique, she would pour colored liquid rubber straight on to the floor creating a three-dimensional sculpture. Her unorthodox techniques with the use of bold colors, cinched metal and dripped wax are a display of great respect in the abstract sculpture field.