An Interview With Lynda Benglis, 'Heir To Pollock,' on Process, Travel and Not Listening to What Other People Say

At 73, Lynda Benglis is one of America's most significant living artists. She came of age in the male-dominated New York art scene of Warhol, LeWitt and Newman, transposing the vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism into sculptural works that oozed, dripped and twisted with the fullness of a body. Polyurethane pours like Night Sherbert A (1968) read like a kaleidoscopic, legato reimagining of Jackson Pollock's famous drip technique. Quartered Meteor (1975) suggests Sol LeWitt's wall...