Artist Marilyn Minter’s work finds the line between gorgeous and unsettling — and stays there, making for a fascinating experience. In the first retrospective of her work, titled Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, the Brooklyn Museum shows over four decades’ worth of Minter’s work. Their description puts it best:
Marilyn Minter’s sensual paintings, photographs, and videos vividly explore complex and contradictory emotions around beauty and the feminine body in American culture. She trains a critical eye on the power of desire, questioning the fashion industry’s commercialization of sex and the body.
We brought you one of Minter’s works — ‘Torrent’ — in BUST’s February/March 2017 issue. And thanks to the Brooklyn Museum, we’re bringing you even more here. For more info, check out the Brooklyn Museum’s website and, if you’re in the area, please stop by and view the art for yourself before the exhibit ends on May 7th, 2017.
Top image: Marilyn Minter (American, born 1948). Orange Crush, 2009. Enamel on metal, 108 x 180 in. (274.3 x 457.2 cm). Private collection.
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