"Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter-a new documentary that screened as part of the DOC NYC film festival at IFC Center on Thursday-exposes the perhaps underrated value that a sense of humor carries in the fickle, and sometimes demoralizing, contemporary art world. The film shares a name with the title of Minter's retrospective, "Pretty/Dirty," which toured the country from 2015 to 2017."
"By this point, Minter had been consistently making gritty, provocative work in New York for more than 40 years, but hadn't found much lasting success until the early to mid-2000s. Minter is now firmly part of the cultural zeitgeist. The look of her gritty-meets-glam enamel-on-metal paintings are immediately recognizable. She has been hired to shoot ad campaigns for Tom Ford and Zara."
Pretty Dirty: The Life and Times of Marilyn Minter traces Marilyn Minter's four-decade art career and shows humor as a survival mechanism in a fickle contemporary art world. The film shares a title with Minter's Pretty/Dirty retrospective that toured from 2015 to 2017 and marks her shift from decades of gritty, provocative work to greater recognition in the 2000s. Her enamel-on-metal paintings and commercial commissions for Tom Ford and Zara, plus the use of Green Pink Caviar and placements on Gossip Girl, demonstrate cultural impact. Filmmakers Jennifer Ash Rudick and Amanda Benchley filmed for three and a half years and document Minter's dysfunctional Southern upbringing, maternal abuse, and battles with addiction alongside her rise to prominence.
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