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I’d assumed that the title of Lynda Benglis’s recent exhibition of forty-four modestly scaled wall sculptures, “Skeletonizer,” was a nonce coinage with a horror-movie vibe, but no: Merriam-Webster online informs me that the word refers to “any of various lepidopteran larvae that eat the parenchyma of leaves reducing them to a skeleton of veins.” ....
No actor working today has evoked the tragedy and pathos of the leading lady and brought those qualities to her art as deeply as Williams. Now she’s figuring out how to fuel that same creativity from a very different place. ....
One of the most influential sculptors since World War II, Benglis changed the trajectory of various artistic movements without ever quite belonging to any of them. At age 80, she’s only beginning to give us a more complete understanding of her work. ....