Lynda Benglis (*1941 in Lake Charles / USA, lives in New York, Santa Fe, and Ahmedabad) became known for works that translate painting into other mediums and dimensions, playfully expanding aspects of Minimalism with forays into Color Field painting. She is particularly known for her Fallen Paintings of the late 1960s, which feature colored latex that the artist poured onto walls and floors and allowed to harden. Aspects of the bodily and the sensual, often refracted through irony, appear in nearly all her works. Benglis is responsible for one of the most iconic images of feminist art: an advertisement she published in Artforum magazine to coincide with a 1974 article about her work, wherein the artist poses nude with an oversized flesh-colored plastic dildo between her legs.