MARILYN MINTER
Nuzzle, 2022
Dye Sublimation Print
Edition 1 of 3 + 2 AP
Edition 1 of 3 + 2 AP
40 x 30 x 1 in.
Copyright The Artist
'Over the last three decades, Ms. Minter has operated in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture, carving out a place as one of contemporary art’s bad girls…...
"Over the last three decades, Ms. Minter has operated in the gap defined by feminism, painting and popular culture, carving out a place as one of contemporary art’s bad girls… While pushing the often denigrated 1960s style of Photo Realism to new extremes, Ms. Minter’s paintings invite us to consider the ways women do and do not own their bodies. They contrast their private ideas of pleasure with the external cues — played out in fashion, advertising, burlesque or pornography — that set stereotypes of beauty, behavior and sexuality."
- Roberta Smith
Bodily value, a capitalistic organization, is measured by reproductive capability. In Nuzzle (2022), Minter questions the erasure of desire and intimacy among the middle aged and beyond as depicted in the media. Throughout Minter’s practice, the artist has raised questions of ownership, feminine idealism versus feminist realism, and bodily autonomy, exploring these ideas via myriad mediums, from photography to paintings, blending the two into her own vibrant yet exacting visual language.
- Roberta Smith
Bodily value, a capitalistic organization, is measured by reproductive capability. In Nuzzle (2022), Minter questions the erasure of desire and intimacy among the middle aged and beyond as depicted in the media. Throughout Minter’s practice, the artist has raised questions of ownership, feminine idealism versus feminist realism, and bodily autonomy, exploring these ideas via myriad mediums, from photography to paintings, blending the two into her own vibrant yet exacting visual language.
