Lynda Benglis
Artwork Detail
Lynda Benglis is best known for her dynamic poured paint, latex and polyurethane foam sculptures. Described as ‘frozen gestures’, they are like bodies or landscapes, evoking natural forms and elemental forces. In New Zealand for an artist’s residency in 1993, the primeval landscape of the Waiotapu
thermal valley inspired Benglis to revisit a process she had last used in the 1970s. These works are made rapidly, using repeated brushstrokes of hot pigmented beeswax like paint, the layers forming a richly textured surface topography. Like
Waiotapu’s volcanic processes, Benglis’s hot wax cools and congeals into striking formations.
- Title
- Kaingaroa
- Artist/creator
- Lynda Benglis
- Production date
- 1993
- Medium
- purified beeswax, damar resin crystals, pigment
- Dimensions
- 980 x 125 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, purchased 1993
- Accession no
- 1993/36/1
- Copyright
- Copying restrictions apply
- Department
- International Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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