Chris Gamez submits Marilyn Minter

              

   Wangechi Gold 5                                Mud bath

                                                Chris Gamez submits Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter is a New York based artist who has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions across the country and even internationally. Minter is recognizable for her work on female body parts, usually their mouths or feet, covered my makeup, jewelry, or unknown slimes and liquids.

In one of her exhibitions in New York at Salon 94, Minter experiments with “Pathology of Glamour”, which is an examination at women’s strive for perfection and how she subverts desire by focusing in on her subjects. With some pieces such as Mud bath, Minter mocks how modern advertisements often fetishize models by focusing on a main body part, in this piece she focuses on a woman’s foot. The photo has a clashing theme due to the contrast of the woman’s stylized pose in a heel being a regular image for advertisement. What makes this contrasting is that the foot is positioned in a three quarters view from the back of the foot in a style that is almost reminiscent of looking over a shoulder, like sneaking a glance.. Mud bath was also featured in her billboard collection that deals with this fetishizing  more direct and head on. Other pieces include Crystal Swallow and Glazed which focus on a woman’s mouth and eyes.

Minter’s work is beautiful in that her subjects are presented in a way that is glamorized but also suggest a deeper, darker meaning. Minter’s work was introduced to me by a professor comparing my artwork with her photos. My interest was piqued, and I soon became fascinate by her unique glamorization of fetishization, especially in pieces such as Satiated, which focuses on a woman with a pearl necklace spilling from her mouth, and Wangechi Gold 5, which focuses on liquid gold spilling from a woman’s mouth.

I am deeply interested in how Minter’s color pops with the glamorization and her subject matter. The overt sexual connotation in the photos is fascinating to see depicted and is something I would like to explore myself. Marilyn Minter is defiantly an artist for me to observe.

Website: https://www.marilynminter.net/bio/