![]() ![]() Paglia added that the casts actually represented “women taking control.” “They assumed it was degrading, and I thought it was quite the opposite.” Her process ended by incorporating a dental mold-making substance, called alginate, which solidified around the subject’s private part and then slipped off as the participant “cooled off,” as Deadline reported.įeminists at the dawn of the women’s movement “took a very dim view of what Cynthia Plaster Caster was doing,” author and social critic Camille Paglia revealed in 2000. “I was trying to figure out a way to mold a penis, so I thought, ‘Well, let’s get together a kit because that will make it even more absurd and ridiculous - and professional look, and create more laughs,” she said in a 2000 interview. (Albritton famously revealed that she found many willing assistants who helped prep her subjects for her art.) Cynthia Plaster Caster meets the press in NYC before her first-ever art exhibition in 2000. Getty ImageĪlthough guitar god Jimi Hendrix - she “met him” at the Chicago Hilton and Towers in ’68 - was her first cast, she later expanded her oeuvre to include male filmmakers - and eventually the breasts of female artists such as Peaches, Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many others. ![]() American artist Cynthia Albritton - alias Cynthia Plaster Caster - poses with the penis sculptures she made with some help from Ronnie Barnett of the Muffs and Richard Lloyd of the band Television. The native of Chicago’s South Side launched her plaster-casting career in the Windy City, circa 1968, after meeting an unlikely patron: Iconoclastic rocker Frank Zappa found the 20-year-old’s artistic vision funny and creative - although he declined to, uh, sit for her - and helped her relocate to Los Angeles. The passing of the self-proclaimed “recovering groupie” - and 2010 Midwestern mayoral candidate - was confirmed by her representative, Variety first reported. It included the lyrics: “The plaster’s gettin’ harder and my love is perfection/ A token of my love for her collection.”Ĭynthia’s career was immortalised in the 2001 documentary ‘Plaster Caster’ and she also featured in the 2005 BBC documentary ‘My Penis and I’ – created by the filmmaker Lawrence Barraclough about his anxiety over the size of his penis.Cynthia “Plaster Caster” Albritton, an avid music fan who became infamous in the ’60s and ’70s for her plaster casts of rock stars’ erect penises, has died after a long illness. The experiences were equally exciting and weird and different from each other.”Ĭynthia was honoured in the song ‘Plaster Caster’ that featured on the 1977 KISS album ‘Love Gun’ although rock legend Gene Simmons was never one of her subjects. Because they’re my sweet babies and I am their mama and I’m very democratic with all my babies. But, I couldn’t say whether or not he’s my most exciting. I had tried it on a few civilians first to be ready for Jimi. “We were the groupies that got to the hotel first and we were the only groupies in Jimi Hendrix’s room. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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