Comprised of hundreds of individual dyed fabric pieces, Apfelbaum \'s installations reference modern art history — the 1950s poured works of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, and Lynda Benglis \'s
latex floor pieces.
Not exact matches
In another, harder push, pigment is suspended in cast - polyester resin in a wall
piece by Richard Van Buren and in
latex in a bright, rubbery
floor piece by Lynda Benglis.
Beginning with her poured
latex «
floor paintings,» and her layered wax
pieces, Benglis pursued pure form, putting her at the forefront of New York Post-Minimalism.
In the smaller room, Lynda Benglis presents new works in ceramic alongside early
floor pieces of brightly pigmented poured
latex and a selection of wall
pieces in wax.
Benglis created a series of «pour
pieces,» in which she poured brightly colored liquid
latex on the
floor.
Untitled
Floor Piece, 2014 glazed porcelain, glazed and painted ceramic,
latex house paint, MDF, acrylic paint 3.5» x 62» x 26»
Club Mood Swing:
Floor Piece 2013 masonite, gaffers tape and acrylic
latex dimensions variable.
Commonly cited examples, which are repeated in the catalog, include, among others, Lynda Benglis» pouring of pigmented
latex directly on a
floor, on which it hardened; Richard Serra's works in which he cast molten lead into the corner where
floor met wall (one of which has been reproduced at SFMOMA); Robert Smithson's pouring of viscous asphalt down a hillside outside Rome; and Eva Hesse's «Rope
Piece,» in which lengths of rope were let to hang loosely in a space in three - dimensional mimicry of the skeins of pigment in Pollock's drip paintings.
Among highlights here are two renowned late monumental works by Eva Hesse: the
latex and canvas
floor work «Augment» and the four - part wall
piece «Aught», both created in 1968.
For the exhibition, Benglis will show one of her early
floor pieces composed of brightly pigmented poured
latex, as well as new works and a selection of earlier wall works.