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“My teacher asked us to cast something in plaster that could hold its shape, and I thought, ‘Why don’t I kill two birds with one stone?’ ”Īfter “preparing” the men, her friend Des Barres wrote in her bestselling memoir “I’m With The Band,” Albritton would “dip the quivering erect member into a bucket full of gooey white goo called alginate, rip it off the the moment it got soft (instantly, I imagine), pour some plaster mix into the gaping hole and leave it there until it gets hard.Īlbritton’s first round of casting calls came for three whirlwind years beginning in early 1968, after she practiced on two college friends in preparation for her first attempt at rock stardom.
(In 2000, she said her religious mother, then 84, still had no idea of her daughter’s creative pursuits.) Albritton was studying art at the University of Illinois at Chicago when she got an assignment, she told an interviewer. An only child, she rarely discussed her family life and kept her last name a secret until the mid-1990s. (Bernd Wüstneck/photo alliance via Getty Images)Ĭynthia Albritton was born on in Chicago. She prevailed.Ĭynthia Plaster Caster poses with the plaster cast of Jimi Hendrix’s penis in July 2015. and former manager of Frank Zappa, regarding the property. At the time, she was in a legal battle with musical executive Herb Cohen. “What started as a way to meet rock bands ended up becoming a form of Pop Art,” Albritton told The Times in 1993. Frank Zappa was so impressed with her skills that he funded her brief move from Chicago to Los Angeles. As she accumulated the penis casts, her sexual drive was eclipsed by her artistic drive. “I would ask this group I was trying to meet if they could help me with my homework,” she told MTV.
The artist has inspired songs like KISS (“Plaster Caster”), Jim Croce (“Five Short Minutes”) and dance punk band Le Tigre (“Nanny Nanny Boo Boo”). She was soon profiled alongside fellow so-called groupies Pamela Des Barres, Judith Peters (“Miss Mercy”) and Christine Frka (“Miss Christine”) in Rolling Stone.Īlbritton held the first exhibition of his casts in New York in 2000 and was the subject of “Plaster Caster: The Rock & Roll Adventures of a Super-Groupie”, a 2001 documentary about his work. “I wanted to fall in love with a British rock star.”Ĭarrying a black suitcase labeled with an oval “Plaster Casters of Chicago” tag, the artist arrived backstage at concerts or hotels with a ready-made pitch and the tools to pull it off. It was the dawn of the sexual revolution,” Albritton said in 2000 in an interview at the first exhibition of his work. She was 74 years old.īeginning in 1968, Albritton began compiling an extensive collection of phalluses made possible by private sessions with rockers such as Jimi Hendrix, MC5’s Wayne Kramer, Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, and dozens of others. Cynthia Albritton, who as Cynthia Plaster Caster successfully channeled a teenage girl’s desire to lose her virginity to a rock star into a lifelong project creating casts of their erect penises, died Thursday in his native Chicago after an undisclosed illness, according to a press release.
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