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Lynda Benglis

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Lynda Benglis (Born 1941) is active/lives in New York, New Mexico / Greece, India.  Lynda Benglis is known for Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics.

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 In the summer of 1964, Lynda Benglis, described "as a very canny young woman from Louisiana, Tulane BFA in hand", made her way to New York on a bus filled with anti-Jim Crow activists on their way home from Mississippi.

She lost her Southern accent as fast as she could and enrolled at the Brooklyn Museum Art School; within a few months, it seems, she knew almost everyone in the art world.  Her blunt manner must have been balanced by considerable charm if, as the story goes, she really got away with telling David Hockney, at one of his openings, that his drawings were good but that he ought to forget about his paintings.  She also recommended to Dan Flavin, still making painted boxes with light-bulbs sticking out, that maybe he could lose the boxes, which he eventually did.

The New York art world was smaller then with "nobody was going to these openings," Benglis recalls, so it was relatively easy for a smart, ambitious young woman to meet the people who mattered   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8988 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Lynda Benglis

   Publications  Book References:  52
Magazine References:  16

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16 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Lynda Benglis
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTnews Reviews November 2005 Editors, Artnews Yes
ARTnews Underrated/Overrated January 2005 Sheets, Hilarie M Yes
ARTFORUM Bone of Contention November 2004 Meyer, Richard Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions September 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews June 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews How Far Can You Go? January 2004 Yablonsky, Linda No
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 2002 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM First Break-Lynda Benglis October 2002 Schwabsky, Barry Yes
ARTnews Reviews September 2002 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTweek Reviews April 2001 Editor, ARTWeek No
Art in America Odyssues's Progeny September 2000 Kalina, Richard Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions November 1998 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews New York Reviews November 1998 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Abstraction Out of Bounds November 1997 Rubinstein, Raphael Yes
ARTnews Site Specifics April 1997 Landi, Ann Yes
ARTnews Mothers, Mentors and January 1996 Sizemore, Gene Yes
52 Book References for Lynda Benglis
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Wark, Jayne Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America 285 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2001 Thom, Ian et al Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery)
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Ellis, Robert M. (Director) Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook 48 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Delehanty, Randolph Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection 292 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Ratcliff, Carter The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art 352 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1993 Stevens, Andrew (essay) Tandem Press: Five Years Of Collaboration and Experimentation 116 Yes
1993 Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors) The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection 414 Yes
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1991 Krane, Susan Lynda Benglis Dual Natures
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 Yes
1991 Wexner Center, Ohio State U Breakthroughs Avant-Garde Artists in Europe & America 1950-1990 310 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions 638 No
1989 Armstrong, Elizabeth First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 149 Yes
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream 300 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Heller, Nancy Women Artists An Illustrated History 224 Yes
1987 Onorato, Ronald J Faux Arts: Surface Illusions and Simulated Materials in Recent Art (La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California)
(Exhibition catalog)		 14 Yes
1987 Pincus-Witten, Robert Postminimalism into Maximalism American Art 1966-1986 429 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Marshall, Richard 50 New York Artists 118 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Art Now 160 Yes
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Freeman, Phyllis New Art 207 Yes
1984 Marshall, Richard American Art Since 1970, Painting, Sculpture and Drawing Whitney Museum of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 No
1984 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present 656 No
1984 Robins, Corrine The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981 246 Yes
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum The Americans/The Collage
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1982 Newport Harbor Art Museum Shift L A / N Y
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom (Foreward) 1981 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 No
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art Urban Encounters Art, Architecture, Audience 64 Yes
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art in the Seventies 128 Yes
1980 University of Pennsylvania Drawings:The Pluralist Decade
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1977 Ekdahl, Janis American Sculpture A Guide to Information Sources 260 No
1977 Pincus-Witten, Robert Postminimalim 198 No
1977 Whitney Museum 1977 Biennial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1976 Block, Rene SoHo, New York Downtown Mahhattan/Berliner Festwochen
(Exhibition catalog)		 431 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America II 430 No
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