# Sadie Benning: Suspended Animation - Hardcover

by **Sadie Benning** (Artist), **Jennifer Lange** (Editor), **Jennifer Lange** (Introduction by)

Sadie Benning is not only among the country's most respected and influential video artists, she also broke cultural ground as a founding member of the multimedia feminist band Le Tigre. _Suspended Animation_, the first monograph on the artist and the catalogue of her first U.S. museum exhibition, introduces Benning's paintings and _Play Pause_, an ambitious new two-channel video installation. Benning's videos, which she began to make in the late 1980s with a Fisher-Price Pixelvision 2000 "toy camera," are known for their explorations of loneliness, alienation, gender ambiguity and her own developing lesbian identity. Benning's recent paintings--flat, illustrative, exuberant--are playful, imaginary portraits that address similar themes. _Play Pause_, created entirely from hundreds of Benning's drawings, offers a rhythmic and affectionate view of contemporary life in a city's streets, parks and gay bars. Includes written contributions by Eileen Myles and Aleksandar Hemon, and a conversation with the New York painter Amy Sillman.

**Number of Pages:** 84

**Dimensions:** 0.51 x 9.75 x 8.52 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** March 01, 2007

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