BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens announced that Lynda Benglis has joined the gallery.

Lynda Benglis (b. 1941, Lake Charles, LA, USA) is widely recognised for an oeuvre that has consistently challenged art-historical and technical conventions while treading new and experimental ground. Benglis creates pure, abstract works that are typically inspired by natural and organic forms. She often combines an element of visual seductiveness—reflective or sparkling surfaces, transparency, vivid hues—with atypical shapes, challenging the relationship between painting and sculpture and their respective modes of presentation.

Driven by an inventive and interrogative approach to both the physical and aesthetic properties of her chosen materials, she works in a broad range of media including beeswax, latex, polyurethane, glitter, luminous paint, plaster, metal, glass, porcelain and paper.

As a young artist in the mid-1960s, Benglis began throwing brightly-coloured liquid latex onto the floor to create large ‘poured’ works that expanded the prevailing discourse around minimalism and the legacy of abstract expressionism. Working in photography and video primarily in the 1970s, Benglis created radical images that sought to undermine gender stereotypes and discrimination against women artists within male-dominated artistic circles.

Lynda Benglis lives and works between New York, Santa Fe and Greece. Her work is included in the public collections of the Guggenheim Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Hokkaido Museum of Art, Japan and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia among many others.