The experiences were equally exciting and weird and different from each other."Īccording to Variety, Cynthia's "collection" also included Wayne Kramer of MC5, Pete Shelley of THE BUZZCOCKS, Jello Biafra of the DEAD KENNEDYS as well as female breasts from the likes of Laetitia Sadier of STEREOLAB, Sally Timms of the MEKONS, PEACHES, Karen O of the YEAH YEAH YEAHS and many others. 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. He was my first real rock star that dipped his dick and it was unbelievable. Cynthia recalled: " Jimi Hendrix was coming to town. Jimi Hendrix was Cynthia's most infamous cast and one of her first, done in February 1968. 'Something solid,' he said, 'as in hard.' I'd heard through the grapevine that penises got solid although I had yet to see that happen." I discovered that way when I was an art major in college when my art teacher told me to make a plaster cast as my homework assignment of something that could retain its shape. But I wasn’t experienced or seductive and the only way I could go about getting the zippers down was in a goofy, funny way. I was a shy, fledgling, virginal, goofy girl that wanted to get laid by cute British boys with long hair and tight pants. She was 74 years old.Ī decade ago, Cynthia told Rock Scene magazine about getting the rock and roll groupie bug when she met THE ROLLING STONES in the 1960s: "This exciting life was the life for me. Cynthia Plaster Caster, the legendary artist and "recovering groupie" renowned for the plaster casts she took of many top musicians' erect penises and other body parts, died after a long illness on Thursday, April 21. "I am an everyday citizen that is sick and tired of seeing the problems of our city escalate and I believe we ALL need to participate in helping to make our city the best it can be.Cynthia Albritton, a.k.a. "I am not a politician," Albritton said in a statement at the time, according to CBS News. RELATED VIDEO: Gilbert Gottfried, Aladdin Voice Actor and Comedian, Dead at 67 'After a Long Illness' The artist also briefly dabbled in politics, running for mayor of Chicago in 2010, appropriately under the "hard party." "I'm able to do what I do now because of financiers and I want other people to be able to experience what I'm able to experience, which is being the real me….And besides, what I think this world needs right now is groovy music and art," Cynthia said. "My plaster casts are my sweet babies, and this is my big baby," she told the Chicago Reader in 2002. She used her art to raise money for fellow struggling musicians and artists through her Cynthia P Caster Foundation. The next year, she was the subject of the documentary Plaster Caster. (Photo by Sion Touhig/Sygma/Sygma via Getty Images)Īlbritton finally had her first exhibition of the casts in New York in 2000. (Original Caption) Portrait of Cynthia Plaster Caster and her work exhibiting at the Threadwaxing Space. "The plaster's gettin' harder / And my love is perfection / A token of my love / For her collection," the lyrics go. ![]() She eventually accumulated a collection of 50 plaster penises from the likes of MC5's Wayne Kramer, Pete Shelley of the Buzzcocks and Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, in addition to breast casts from Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab, Sally Timms of The Mekons, Peaches and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, according to Variety.Īlthough she said she never casted any of the band's members, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons dedicated their 1977 song "Plaster Caster" from their album Love Gun to Albritton. RELATED: Robert Morse, Mad Men and Tony Award-Winning Actor, Dead at 90: 'A Beautiful Spirit'Īlbritton later expanded the series to include filmmakers, as well as female artists's breasts. ![]() She soon moved her operation to Los Angeles with some help from Frank Zappa, who patronized her art but didn't model for a cast. Born on May 24, 1947, in Chicago, she got her nickname after she launched her iconic art series in 1968, when she created a cast of the member of Jimi Hendrix, according to Deadline.
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