MARILYN MINTER
Magnetic + Addictive Visual Feasts
A prolific multi-faceted artist, Marilyn Minter commands paint, photography, videography, and the global creative hive mind through work so sharply beautiful, so tightly gripping, you want to shower in it with all the steamy glory of one of her subjects.
At her core, she’s an activist — and we are here for it. To take a stand against Elon Musk and all that he stands for, for instance, she recently announced on Instagram that she was deleting her X/Twitter account and walking away from his platform for good.
But even if you know nothing about her and what she stands for, her work screams for itself.
From the drippy, fingered-on-a-bathroom-mirror messages like “My body, my rights” and “Pro-choice,” featured in her work for Planned Parenthood, her iconic “Resist” flags flown in the face of those who would deny women’s autonomy, and her “My Cuntry Tis Of Thee” video, to her decadent paintings of women dripping in jewels and glitter, she presses her audience right up against the windows of her world. It feels almost voyeuristic to spend time staring at pieces like “Wangechi” and “Lick,” but how can you not?
There’s simply no one else in the world like Minter. She edges right up to your personal space and makes beauty out of glimpses that would be uncomfortably close and painfully intimate in the hands of any other artist. She makes painted tongues look sweet. She makes runny makeup look devastatingly gorgeous. She can even make sun damage look decadent. Her art is magnetic and its shock value is addictive. And that’s probably the point.
