Saturday morning we went down to the Brooklyn Museum, and we were lucky to catch the Marilyn Minter show Pretty/Dirty up on the 5th floor. It’s a pretty stunning look at her work, and while I’m sure you recognize some of these images, when you see them twelve feet high in person it’s a completely different experience.
Here’s how the Museum describes the exhibit, but if you get a chance you should stop by and see it for yourself:
“Spanning more than four decades, the exhibition begins with the artist’s earliest artworks, from 1969 through 1986, including rarely exhibited photographs as well as paintings incorporating photorealist and Pop art techniques. It continues with works from the late 1980s and 1990s that examine visual pleasure in visceral depictions of food and sex. The exhibition culminates in Minter’s ongoing investigation of how the beauty industry expertly creates and manipulates desire through images.”
Read more at the Brooklyn Museum site.
Here are a few of the images from the show: