Through the 1980s, she explored Pop-derived pictures often incorporating sexuality, receiving often bitter controversy when she began using imagery taken from porn magazines. Her infamy was exacerbated in 1990 when she produced her own TV ad, 100 Food Porn, which ran during late-night mainstream television shows. The 1990s and the early years of this decade saw her gradually refining her style and imagery so that,while still suggesting pornography, her photographs and paintings seem to breathe the atmosphere of high fashion and glamour.
Marilyn often takes aspects of fashion photography such as the fascination with fragile quail eggs or models with jewelry in their mouth and takes it a step further by painting the eggs breaking and drooling all over a woman's face, or a model throwing up a mouth full of pearls.
Besides her painting and photography work, Marilyn gained a lot of fame with some of her video work.She produced an eight minute high-definition video, Green Pink Caviar (2009) A lush and sensual voyeuristic hallucination. Filmed with macro lenses, she captures the most minute movements of female mouths licking candy and cake decoration. This video was even played as an opening to Madonna's Sweet and Sticky Tour.
The most interesting part of Marilyn's work to me, is her attitude to the imagery she chooses to explore. In many interviews Marilyn expressed a very casual approach to themes of pornography and specifically females' sexual exploration. Marilyn rebels against the notions that these topics are often taboo and creates these massive glamorous works of art, presenting them on billboards (sometimes literally) as if they were everyday, popular, commercial culture.
I propose that besides exhibiting Minter's work in gallery spaces provided on campus, I would also urge Cornish to invite her for an artist talk at the Henry Art Gallery. Marilyn has a fresh look at themes of Sexuality and Rebellion that many current and upcoming artist would benefit from hearing.
Example artist talk:
Green Pink Caviar teaser:
Artist website:
http://www.marilynminter.net/
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