Details

Title

Merak

Artist/Maker

Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941)

Date

1982– 1983

Medium

Copper, aluminum, and zinc over bronze wire mesh

Dimensions

27 x 29 x 20 inches

Credit

Gift of Dr. William and Lisa Bauer

Accession #

2003.50

On View

On View - Anne Cox Chambers Wing, Skyway, Gallery 422

Deeply concerned with the physicality of form and how it affects the viewer, Lynda Benglis uses a wide range of materials to render impressions of mass and surface. Though essentially abstract, her sculptures are at once industrial and organic, cerebral and physical, elegant and kitsch. The appearance of Merak changes radically with each angle; from one position it resembles a heavy, lavish drapery billowing in the wind, but with a mere shift of position it takes on the appearance of some exotic aquatic life form.

Image Copyright

© Lynda Benglis/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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