Marilyn Minter valuation
Paints glamour at close range, wet, smeared and slightly repellent.
Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1948 and grew up in Florida; the photographs she took of her mother in 1969, addicted and made up in bed, went unseen for two decades and now open most accounts of her work.
What a work by Marilyn Minter is worth
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Bio
Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1948 and grew up in Florida; the photographs she took of her mother in 1969, addicted and made up in bed, went unseen for two decades and now open most accounts of her work. She spent years painting the imagery of fashion and food advertising at a moment when that was critically unfashionable, and was widely attacked for it. The mature paintings are made in enamel on metal, worked with fingertips, from her own photographs: a mouth, a bejewelled foot, condensation on glass, at extreme magnification and always slightly wrong.
The enamel-on-aluminium paintings lead the market and are technically demanding objects — many thin layers of enamel on metal, glossy, worked by hand, and effectively impossible to retouch invisibly, so condition is decisive and surface damage is permanent. Photographs exist in editions, usually small, at several sizes, and edition and print date must be established. There is a print output in screenprint and photogravure. Because the imagery circulates widely through fashion collaboration and editorial work, unauthorised reproductions and posters are frequently offered as editions.
Gainesville, Syracuse and Pretty/Dirty
Minter took her BFA at the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1970 and her MFA in painting at Syracuse in 1972; Diane Arbus, a visiting artist at Florida, saw the photographs of her mother and encouraged her. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art gave her a solo exhibition in 2005, and in 2009 she made the video Green Pink Caviar.
Her first major retrospective, Pretty/Dirty, opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2015 and travelled to Denver, Orange County and the Brooklyn Museum. She has made limited-edition skate decks with Supreme, and is represented by Salon 94 in New York and Regen Projects in Los Angeles, among others.
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