This now 55-year old self-described "recovering groupie," began her unusual career in 1968 when she and a friend, under the guise of The Plaster Casters of Chicago, used guitarist Jimi Hendrix's appendage as their first famous model. If there weren't so many other girls, like herself, waiting to see their idols up close after their gigs, she would've never devised her Plaster Caster gimmick - one that would ultimately gain her backstage access to 'meat-and-greet' her musical heroes. If the music hadn't driven her, she never would've been waiting backstage to meet the musicians that drove her wild. That's what got her into this fine mess in the first place. The general public may not know her if they saw her walking down the street or even if they heard her name in conversation, but most have, at least, caught wind of Cynthia Plaster Caster's unusual (s)exploits of making plaster casts of rock star's penises for the last three decades.Ĭynthia is one part groupie, one part artist and a ten parts rock 'n' roll fan. "The plaster's gettin' harder and my love is perfection, A token of my love for her collection" - Gene Simmons from the 1977 Kiss song "Plaster Caster" Interview with groupie / artist Cynthia Plaster Caster Oct. She launched a long-shot, unsuccessful bid for Chicago mayor in 2010 under the “Hard Party” banner.Cynthia Plaster Caster Interview - One on One 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”). Soon after she found a patron in gonzo rocker Frank Zappa, who was not interested in sitting for one of her unique sessions. 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.
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. Rip Corporate 'Rock Stars' in Super Bowl… Ozzy, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Paul Stanley & Gary Clark Jr.
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