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“In our dreams, somehow we float. And I was wanting to make an artwork that seemingly had no up or down.” —Lynda Benglis
Speaking of Lynda Benglis…. In the multivolume 2019 edition of Women’s History Month, she likely deserves a few chapters. The Louisiana-born artist moved to New York in 1964 and, almost immediately upon her arrival, immersed herself in the art world, where she has firmly remained.
In this video for her exhibition last year at Paula Cooper Gallery—with whom she has had a decades-long relationship—Benglis talks about “the clarity of the pour” for artists like Pollock and Frankenthaler as well as her own subconscious attempts to replicate the natural world. “I had made nature, in a way,” she says.
The brief video is excerpted from a longer Artforum interview in which Benglis talks about her life and work in New York since the 1960s, including, of course, the advertisement. As Benglis says, “I think the ad received the kind of attention that it deserved.”
