Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation

Eileen Myles

Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Wexner Center for the Arts
Country
United States
Published
1 March 2007
Pages
84
ISBN
9781881390411

Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation

Eileen Myles

Sadie Benning is not only among the country’s most respected and influential video artists, she also broke cultural ground as a founding member of the multimedia feminist band Le Tigre. Suspended Animation, the first monograph on the artist and the catalogue of her first U.S. museum exhibition, introduces Benning’s paintings and Play Pause, an ambitious new two-channel video installation. Benning’s videos, which she began to make in the late 1980s with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision 2000 toy camera, are known for their explorations of loneliness, alienation, gender ambiguity and her own developing lesbian identity. Benning’s recent paintings–flat, illustrative, exuberant–are playful, imaginary portraits that address similar themes. Play Pause, created entirely from hundreds of Benning’s drawings, offers a rhythmic and affectionate view of contemporary life in a city’s streets, parks and gay bars. Includes written contributions by Eileen Myles and Aleksandar Hemon, and a conversation with the New York painter Amy Sillman.

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