Lynda Benglis: Painting in Three Dimensions

Lynda Benglis: Painting in Three Dimensions

April 8, 2025 · 44 min · Season 1 · Episode 13

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This episode explores Lynda Benglis's innovative approach to merging painting and sculpture during the 1960s and 70s.

In the late 1960s and early 70s, Lynda Benglis dissolved the boundaries between painting and sculpture through fearless experimentation, creating revolutionary works that sought to capture and freeze her gestures. The American artist, born in 1941 in Louisiana but Greek by heritage, developed her distinctive visual language after moving to New York in the 1960s, where she quickly integrated into, and made her own name in, one of the most dynamic and diverse creative decades of the C20th. She...

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