Artist Projects Lynda Benglis "Ghost of Smile" Limited-Edition T-Shirt Published Friday, Nov 1, 2024 DetailsGhost of Smile Limited Edition T-Shirt$75.00Shop (opens in a new window) Order Now This November marks 50 years since Lynda Benglis rocked the art establishment with the publication of her famed 1974 Artforum Advertisement. For this provocative work, she commandeered two pages in the front of the magazine with a glossy field of black space and an image of herself naked, wearing white sunglasses and holding a comically large double dildo between her thighs. Five of Artforum's editors denounced Benglis's artwork in the magazine's December 1974 issue. Two subsequently left the staff. Benglis has stated that her intention was to create a work "ambiguous enough that it couldn’t be said what it was." This embrace of open-endedness gave the work a life far beyond its original context. Read More To mark this milestone anniversary of the artwork, Pace has collaborated with Benglis to design a limited-edition t-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark image of Ghost of Smile, a sculpture which relates to the cast metal dildos, titled Smile, that the artist made shortly after the publication of her Artforum Advertisement. Nodding to the history of the iconic ad, this cast phosphorescent pigmented polyurethane sculpture reflects Benglis’s enduring practice of reimagining her work in different materials and scales over the years. As part of Pace’s commemorative initiative surrounding the artist’s Artforum Advertisement, an edition of Ghost of Smile (1974/2016) is also being exhibited in the lobby of Pace’s 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from November 14 to December 21. (opens in a new window) Learn More & Pre-Order Read More Journal View All Press Lynda Benglis' Loewe Collaboration Featured in Frieze Jun 28, 2023 Films Alanna Heiss on "Lynda Benglis: An Alphabet of Forms" May 18, 2021 Museum Exhibitions Lynda Benglis at the National Gallery of Art Feb 24, 2020 Essays Loie Hollowell on Lynda Benglis Nov 26, 2019 Artist Projects — Lynda Benglis "Ghost of Smile" Limited-Edition T-Shirt, Nov 1, 2024