"She begins each painting with a photo shoot, then uses Photoshop to create composites, searching for her subject's essential characteristics. Like a sketch, the resulting image becomes a study for the painting, which she renders in layers of enamel sign paint on sheet metal. Minter did one of Monica Lewinsky, in 2023. "I met her at one of Cindy Sherman's New Year's Eve parties," she said. "She was slut-shamed so bad. She's my hero because she lived.""
"The show featured other Minter heroes, including Jane Fonda giving the finger and two large-scale odalisques: Padma Lakshmi, in a bra and a boa, eating oranges, and Lizzo, in a corset, holding an iPhone. Historically, Minter said, such paintings were a sanctioned form of titillation. "They were tits and ass for the public," she said. "I decided I would make my odalisques women who are really proud of their bodies.""
Marilyn Minter faced exile in the late 1990s after a sexually explicit show prompted several galleries to drop her. She began painting images she had not seen in art: glittered glam-rock eyes, glossy red lips with food, and proud, glamorous female subjects. Minter stages photo shoots, uses Photoshop to composite essential characteristics, and renders paintings in layered enamel sign paint on sheet metal. She painted Monica Lewinsky in 2023 and included celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Padma Lakshmi, and Lizzo in a show that reframes historical titillation as women exercising agency.
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