In 2000 she exhibited her plasterpieces at a SoHo gallery, followed by another showing in 2017 at the MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York. 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”).
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Cynthia learned how to cast molds when as a student at the University of Illinois, she got an assignment to cast. Between shows, Hendrix gets 'casted' by the inventive groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster, who makes a mold of his love gun.
Soon after she found a patron in gonzo rocker Frank Zappa, who was not interested in sitting for one of her unique sessions. The Jimi Hendrix Experience play two shows at the Civic Opera House in Chicago. 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 Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster for the plaster casts she made of rock star private parts, died today after what her representatives said was a long illness. 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. Janet Jackson Brings Fans 'Together Again' at Hollywood Bowl Concert
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