Marilyn Minter

My cousin brought Marilyn Minter to my attention, and right away I was interested in her Green Pink Caviar collection. They have a commercial quality to them that interested me, but they were different...they are gritty, dirty but also rich with color.





All three of these represent different areas she focused on, and I believe that this project was one that came from another process which goes to show how important it is to explore anything and everything that you become aware of. I would love to see these peices in person. Here's a little peek into Minter's process..

In Green Pink Caviar Marilyn Minter continues her interest in blurring the boundaries between fine and commercial art. Co-opting advertising genres and related spaces, she takes on a new platform to direct her first video. The eight minute high definition video, Green Pink Caviar (2009) is a lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, the video was inspired by a photo shoot where Minter directed her models to lick brightly colored candies while she shot photos from underneath a glass plate. The models' tongues mixed the colorful sugar with saliva, slurping and pushing color across the glass surface to simulate painting. Driven by her fascination with the body, Green Pink Caviar sets the stage for chance to happen.

Please look at her site, Minter can really keep me engaged with her use of color, but I can't decide if it's just different elements of the photos that get me. I don't feel as if I haven't seen anything like this before, but after reading her process I feel more intrigued by what she was trying to capture. I know we have talked about this all the time that our art should stand on it's own without explanation, but sometimes it really does make a difference in the way that I look at work. Like Dan's car hood that he spray painted and entered in the student juried show, knowing the story behind it made it that much more powerful.