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Salon 94 is pleased to present Green Pink Caviar, an exhibition of new paintings and photographs by Marilyn Minter. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing her examination of glamour and its underbelly, Minter juxtaposes photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs, which hone in on the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque. In Minter’s world, the body is cast as a site of aggressive desire. Tongues covered in glittering candy attempt to push beyond the picture plane and enter the viewer’s space. An androgynous ni … (read more)

Salon 94 is pleased to present Green Pink Caviar, an exhibition of new paintings and photographs by Marilyn Minter. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Continuing her examination of glamour and its underbelly, Minter juxtaposes photorealistic paintings and painterly photographs, which hone in on the moment where clarity becomes abstraction and beauty commingles with the grotesque. In Minter’s world, the body is cast as a site of aggressive desire. Tongues covered in glittering candy attempt to push beyond the picture plane and enter the viewer’s space. An androgynous nipple is menaced by a snake tattoo and adorned with pearls, and a freckled, made up model blows a bubble that is about to burst.

In Pop Rocks, Minter’s largest painting to date, as well as in several photographs, Minter explores the idea of painting with the tongue. To achieve these works, she directed her models to lick brightly colored candy on a sheet of glass and then photographed them from the other side. The tongues mixed the “paint” with saliva, slurping and pushing the color around the glass surface. This concept of painting with the body mimics Minter’s own technique of finishing her highly glossy surfaces with her fingers.

Marilyn has always been interested in blurring the boundaries between commercial and high art. She has shown her photographs as billboards, aired a commercial on late night television, and done fashion shoots in which she subverts cultural ideals of beauty and sexuality. Concurrent to this exhibition, her directorial debut, also entitled Green Pink Caviar will be screened at 44 ½, Creative Time’s presentation of video art. For more information, please visit www.greenpinkcaviar.com.

Courtesy of Salon 94 Freemans

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