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Made with such unorthodox materials as wax, latex, polyurethane foam, and fabric, Benglis’s sculptures are characterized by an emphatic materiality, even sensuousness, as seen in <I>Omnicron</I>, from her <I>Knots</I> series. Produced by looping and tying a kind of \"rope\" made of plaster, cotton bunting, and aluminum into a knot, <I>Omnicron</I> conforms to the general size and proportions of Benglis’s own body. Like the post-Minimalist sculpture with which it is associated, <I>Omnicron</I> is comprised of irregular, asymmetrical forms and floppy, drooping shapes that exploit both tension and gravity. The addition of glitter and fake gemstones interjects an element of kitsch. Indeed, Benglis is well known for testing the boundaries between taste and vulgarity: in a winter 1973 exhibition at the Clocktower Gallery in New York, for instance, she embellished the gallery in which her <I>Knot</I> sculptures were installed with a string of Christmas lights. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Diane Fuller, San Francisco, California. [Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. Private collection. [Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania], sold; to Princeton University Art Museum, 2013.","remarks":"as per invoice in curatorial file. AP."},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"In the 1960s and 1970s Benglis radically stretched the definition of sculpture by using malleable industrial materials such as wax, latex, and metal composites. Her sculptures have an emphatic physicality, even sensuousness, as seen in Omekron.<br />By looping and tying rope made of plaster, cotton bunting, and aluminum, she created irregular forms and drooping shapes that respond to tension and gravity. Conforming to the size and proportions of Benglis’s own body, the work includes glitter and fake gemstones, an example of the artist’s ongoing interest in integrating materials associated with popular craft, mechanization, and industry.","remarks":"MOD_09-12_WLA – Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":1974,"sortnumber":"2013   10","published_date":"2026-03-31 03:14:35.883983","objectid":86034,"dimensions":"172.7 x 91.4 x 40.6 cm (68 x 36 x 16 in.)","on_view":true}