Last Chance to see Lynda Benglis

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

LYNDA BENGLIS!

CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED SHOW CLOSES JAN. 9

AT THE RISD MUSEUM

"FEARLESS. MEANINGFUL. JAWDROPPING" -Boston Globe

"Unabashedly elegant." -ARTnews

"[Seeing Lynda Benglis' work] was one of the most pivotal moments of my career." -Cyndi Sherman

Phantom, 1971. © Lynda Benglis. DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York

PROVIDENCE, RI - This is the last chance to see the RISD Museum's critically-acclaimed exhibition, Lynda Benglis. More than 50 works are included in a variety of media spanning her remarkable 40-year career. Pioneering sculptures, paintings, videos, photographs, and installations-many rarely exhibited-are featured. One of the more notable works in Lynda Benglis is the gravity-defying, poured polyurethane installation titled Phantom (1971). The sculptures contain phosphorescent pigment that cast a luminous green glow when the lights go off in the galleries. Because most of Benglis's poured wall pieces are no longer in existence, the reunion of the five parts of Phantom for the first time since its original presentation at Kansas State University is of particular importance.

The RISD Museum is the first of only two North American venues for this major survey. Lynda Benglis is organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in collaboration with The RISD Museum and other institutions in Europe and the United States, is accompanied by a fully illustrated book published on the occasion of the exhibition. After the show closes at the RISD Museum it will travel to the New Museum, NYC. The exhibition tour is made possible by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Along with their financial support of the international tour and of the exhibition's stop at The RISD Museum, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has also promised a gift of one of the works in the exhibition, Pleiades (1982), to the Museum. The presentation at The RISD Museum is supported in part by contributions from Agnes Gund, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the Bafflin Foundation, Locks Family Foundation, John Cheim (RISD BFA '77),and Howard Read (RISD BFA '76).

For more information or call 401 454-6500.

About the Museum

Southeastern New England's only comprehensive art museum, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design-also known as The RISD Museum-was established in 1874. Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art. The Museum also offers a wide array of educational and public programs to more than 100,000 visitors annually.

The RISD Museum, located at 20 North Main Street in Providence, R.I., is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm, and till 9pm on the third Thursday of the month (except December). Free admission 5 to 9pm on third Thursdays and all day the last Saturday of each month (except December), and "pay what you wish" every Sunday from 10am to 1pm. Closed January 1, July 4, the month of August, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25. Admission is $10 adults; $7 seniors (age 62+); $3 college students with valid ID and youths (ages 5 to 18); and free for Museum members, RISD and Brown University students and staff, and children under 5.

Press

Reporters: Please contact Donna Desrochers at 401 454-6793 or

e-mail ddesroch@risd.edu to arrange a visit or interview.

For exhibition press images contact Carol Cutler at 401-454-6322 or e-mail ccutler@risd.edu.

Zanzidae, from the Peacock series, 1979 . © Lynda Benglis. DACS, London/VAGA, New York 2009. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York