Marilyn Minter

The Great Women Artists

Katy Hessel

Arts

4.8 • 877 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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THIS WEEK on the GWA Podcast, I interview the renowned painter, photographer and filmmaker, Marylin Minter! A legend on the New York art scene for over 50 years, Marylin Minter is a pioneer of electrically graphic, photorealist paintings which take the form of some of the most criticised elements of culture – from high fashion to female desire – and explore how advertising and the the media have set the stereotypes of beauty, behaviour and sexuality… Cropping her images, and zooming in on highly charged – at time erotic – images, Minter’s brightly saturated paintings of a tongue or high-heel are highly ambiguous in both subject and aesthetic value. From the contradictory questions around, is it beautiful? Is it abject, is it pretty or is it dirty? The work almost forms into an abstraction – with acidic tones and hazy finishes – making it unclear as to whether we are looking at a photograph or painting… Minter doesn’t stop at traditional art: she has taken to the mainstream and made works to appear on Times Square billboards or the backdrop of a Madonna concert. She is invested in all forms of culture, assessing wherever art has become disregarded and interpreted as low culture, opening up the question even wider… Born in Louisiana, Minter Grew up in and attended university in Florida, and it was when studying when she embarked on her first well known photographic series of her mother – swept up in the impossible fantasy of glamour – that she was praised by the late Diane Arbus, who at the time was a visiting tutor. In the 70s, Minter moved to NYC. Settling in the East Village scene, she challenged how both popular media and pop art treated women as unrealistic – as subjects of comparison rather than real people, in subjects often considered “debased”. She has since exhibited across the globe, and this Spring will open a new exhibition at LGDR featuring portraits of the likes of Lizzo to Lady Gaga, Gloria Steinem to Monica Lewinsky. And I can’t wait to find out more. Follow us: Katy Hessel: @thegreatwomenartists / @katy.hessel Sound editing by Mikaela Carmichael Artwork by @thisisaliceskinner Music by Ben Wetherfield https://www.thegreatwomenartists.com/ THIS EPISODE IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY OCULA: https://ocula.com/

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the Great Women Artists podcast.
0:05.0	Last week we interviewed writer Siri Huswet on a range of women artists, ranging from Artemisi Gentileski to Louise Bourgeois.
0:12.0	And this week, I am so excited to say that we speak to Marilyn Minter.
0:17.0	But before we get to this, I'm delighted to say that this episode is sponsored by Ocula.
0:22.2	Working with a select group of just over 200 of the world's leading galleries,
0:27.0	ocula.com provides online access to the best of contemporary art.
0:31.8	You can use the platform to search for artworks by exceptional artists.
0:35.8	You can also use the platform to keep up to date with exhibitions showing and leading galleries around the globe.
0:42.3	Ocula magazine publishes compelling articles on contemporary art.
0:46.3	For over a decade, it has published interviews with leading art world figures in its Ocula Conversation series.
0:53.3	In 2016, the magazine published an interview with today's guest, Marilyn Minter.
0:58.1	And if you want to learn more about her practice or other incredible artists, do visit
1:02.8	ocular.com.
1:09.1	Hello everyone and welcome to The Great Women Artist Artist podcast with me, Katie Hessel.
1:15.3	Some of you might know me from The Great Women Artists, an Instagram account I set up in October 2015,
1:21.0	which celebrates female artists on a daily basis, ranging from young graduates to old masters.
1:27.2	Well, in a similar fashion to the Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating female artists from a variety of backgrounds and histories.
1:35.3	And I am so excited to be interviewing artists on their career or artists, writers, curators or general art lovers on the women artist who means most of them.
1:45.1	What I want this podcast to do is celebrate female artists in all different capacities
1:49.7	so you, the listener, can gain a look into the renowned painter, photographer and filmmaker Marilyn Minter.
2:14.9	A legend on the New York art scene for over 50 years,
2:18.5	Marilyn Minter is a pioneer of electrically graphic, photorealist painting,
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