{"id":797,"date":"2009-07-13T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/07\/from_carl_andre_lynda_benglis\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T15:48:28","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:48:28","slug":"from_carl_andre_lynda_benglis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/from_carl_andre_lynda_benglis.html","title":{"rendered":"Onward from Lynda Benglis: what is poured, puffed and curled on the floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Andre&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ada.ascari.name\/studio\/artec\/immagini\/andre-uno.jpg\">floor pieces<\/a> from the late 1960s are direct. Flat squares are in contact with flat ground. The way they appear to occupy the space above them is pure magic.<\/p>\n<p>Lynda Benglis&#8217; are instead a kind of intrusion. They creep over, puddle and change the character of the floor, depriving it of its function as a common base for all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Benglis<\/b>: <i>Baby Planet<\/i> 1969<br \/>\nPoured pigmented latex 106 x 24 x 1 1\/2in. (269.2 x 61 x 3.8cm) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheimread.com\/artists\/lynda-benglis\/\">Cheim &amp; Read<\/a>. <i>Baby Planet<\/i> is in Michael Darling&#8217;s <i>Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78<\/i>&nbsp; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/exhibitDetail.asp?eventID=13787\">Seattle Art Museum<\/a>. (Review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/07\/target-practice-painting-under.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tpbenglis.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tpbenglis.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" \/><\/span>Between Andre and Benglis, her floor work is (at present) the most influential. That wheel will turn, but right now, take a bow, Ms. Benglis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessiehenson.com\/pages\/frame-master.htm\">Jessie Henson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TPjessiehensonlawn.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/TPjessiehensonlawn.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/fitch_ceramic.htm\">Claudia Fitch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tpfitchfloor.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tpfitchfloor.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"450\" height=\"348\" \/><\/span>Brent Sommerhauser, now on view at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/sommerhauser.htm\">Greg Kucera Gallery<\/a>, finds fertile ground between Andre and Benglis. He choses neither, evokes both and cuts the curl of his own wave.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tpbrentsommerhauser.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/tpbrentsommerhauser.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"400\" height=\"292\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Andre&#8217;s floor pieces from the late 1960s are direct. Flat squares are in contact with flat ground. The way they appear to occupy the space above them is pure magic. Lynda Benglis&#8217; are instead a kind of intrusion. They creep over, puddle and change the character of the floor, depriving it of its function [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}