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All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. She launched a long-shot, unsuccessful bid for Chicago mayor in 2010 under the “Hard Party” banner.If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations). In 2000 she exhibited her plasterpieces at a SoHo gallery, followed by another showing in 2017 at the MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. Cynthia Plaster Caster, who called herself a recovering groupie, took casts of the erect penises. And while the hirsute avant garde guitarist/composer did not submit himself for casting, he paid for Albritton to move to Los Angeles, where she began making her unique sculptures.Ĭaster was the subject of the 2001 doc Plaster Caster, and was famously memorialized herself in the Kiss song “Plaster Caster” from the group’s 1977 Love Gun album (sample lyric: “The plaster’s gettin’ harder/ And my love is perfection/ A token of my love/ For her collection”). Cynthia Albritton, most famously known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, has died. Soon after she found a patron in gonzo rocker Frank Zappa, who was not interested in sitting for one of her unique sessions.
The budding artist and rock fan decided to try memorializing erect male phalluses using a dental-molding substance, with Hendrix agreeing to be her first subject.
Cynthia started her collection in Chicago while she was attending art school. She started the trend in 1968 and has already made over 48 casts of rock singers, guitar players, and managers. She later branched out into casting female body parts as well, making breast casts of members of Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, Peaches, members of L7 and the Demolition Doll Rods and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O, among others.Īlbritton, born on in Chicago, hit upon her unique artistic lane in college when a professor asked the class to cast a solid object the could retain its shape. For over four decades, Cynthia has made dozens of plaster cast of rock musicians’ penises. Rip Corporate 'Rock Stars' in Super Bowl… Ozzy, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Paul Stanley & Gary Clark Jr.
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