She made her first exhibition of her casts - 50 in total, along with breasts from Karen O, Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier, and Sally Timms of the Mekons - in 2000. Albritton wound up having to go to court to regain possession of her phalli from Zappa’s legal partner, Herb Cohen, in 1993. Although he never made a personal contribution to the collection, he moved Albritton out to Los Angeles in order to be closer to the stars. Her portfolio, um, enlarged enough by the 1970s to garner the attention of Frank Zappa. She was the groupie who made plaster casts of some of the most majestic wangs of old school rock, a cck-n-roll fangirl, if you will. We’ll make a cast of it.’ And I thought …” Working with her friend Diana Plaster Caster, Cynthia’s first big get was Jimi Hendrix. Albritton, who goes by Cynthia Plaster Caster, began casting molds in the late 1960s, when, as a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois in Chicago, her art teacher gave her an. “‘In fact, bring in any old object from home tomorrow. “One day the teacher said, ‘You can plaster cast almost anything that’s solid,’” she said on Vh1’s Let’s Spend the Night Together. Born in 1947, Albritton got started on her unique vocation while studying in art school. For four decades, Albritton, better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, has been making the rounds backstage, convincing rock stars to let her make plaster molds of their private parts. Cynthia Albritton was notorious on the rock scene in the 1960s and 1970s for making moulds of. Her collection included casts of Jimi Hendrix, Peter Tork of the Monkees, Karen O, the Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley, and Wayne Kramer of MC5. An artist who was known for making plaster casts of rock stars’ penises has died at the age of 74. Cynthia Plaster Caster, who called herself a “recovering groupie,” took casts of the erect penises and boobs of musicians she admired. Cynthia Albritton, a.k.a Cynthia Plaster Caster Even though she never technically posed topless, Caster melded groupiedom and art with her, um, unique sculptures. Cynthia Albritton, most famously known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, has died. A plaster cast of Jimi Hendrixs penis is to be unveiled at the Icelandic Phallological Museum in downtown Reykjavik.
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