MARILYN MINTER

Blurring the line between commercial and fine art, American artist Marilyn Minter’s gaudy and hyperrealistic paintings and photographs examine desire and sexuality as cultural anxieties placed on the female body. Featuring bodies seen through steamy shower glass, close-ups of pedicured toes and painted lips, Minter’s works pull into question the commercialization of sex and the body.

ABOUT THE WORK:

Minter’s photographs capture body female parts up-close, inviting us to examine the ways in which they communicate sensuality. Plush #24 turns viewer into voyeur, as we catch a glimpse of a woman’s pubic hair through steamy shower glass. Pamela Anderson turns a shower scene into a seductive display. In each of these works, Minter forces us to contend with how we define pornography and the erotic in terms of female sexuality and the female body.