Marilyn Minter - NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today New York Monday, June 17, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    New York, Simon Watson Gallery, Marilyn Minter: 100 Food Porn, 1990
    Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; Santa Ana, Orange County Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum, Marilyn Minter. Pretty/Dirty, April 18, 2015 - April 2, 2017, no. 22, pp. 76-77 (illustrated).

  • Catalogue Essay

    Marilyn Minter
    Born 1948, Shreveport, Louisiana

    1970 BFA University of Florida, Gainesville
    1972 MFA Syracuse University, New York

    Selected museum exhibitions:
    Brooklyn Museum (2016); Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (2015); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2011); Museum of Modern Art (2010); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2005); Everson Museum, New York (1975)
    Selected honors: Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2006); Guggenheim Fellowship (1998); National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1989); New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1988)
    Selected public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; Denver Museum of Art, Colorado; Kunsthaus Museum, Zurich; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art

    Marilyn Minter appropriates the visual language of fashion, advertisements, and pornography, transforming them into hyper-realistic paintings that subvert their methods. She has explained: “I’m always looking for the paradox. The idea of glamour is so shallow, so debased, and yet it gives people so much pleasure and is a huge industry. I have a love/hate relationship with it.” Minter began her career as a photographer, then moved to painting. The present enamel on metal work is from an early series of paintings that she titled Food Porn. These visually stunning works have a visceral, even erotic appeal and a lushly fluid, gelatinous surface, bringing to the fore considerations of how images manipulate desire.

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100 FOOD PORN #69 (CHICKEN)

signed, titled and dated ""100 FOOD PORN #69 (CHICKEN)" ENAMEL ON METAL SIGN 24" x 30" M. MINTER '90" on the reverse
enamel on metal
24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1990.

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NOMEN: American Women Artists from 1945 to Today

New York Selling Exhibition 19 June - 3 August 2019