Artist
Marilyn Minter (American, born 1948)American, born 1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Smash
Date2014
MediumSingle-channel video
Dimensions7 minutes, 18 seconds
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2022.30
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view
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For more than four decades, Marilyn Minter has explored the intersection of the glamorous and the grotesque through a feminist lens in photography, painting, and video. Her embrace of the visual language of both the fashion and porn industries and her unabashed depiction of the female body were controversial in the 1980s and remain intentionally unsettling—simultaneously seductive and repulsive.
ProvenanceThe artist; [Salon 94, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition History2021 Marilyn Minter: Smash, Museum of Contemporary Art, Westport, CT
2018 Channel 3, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2018 Smash + New Photographs, Baldwin, Aspen, CO
2016 Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2016 Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
2015 Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2015 Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2015 Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe, Brooklyn Museum, NY
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William Kentridge
2020
Single channel video with stereo audio, edition 5/9 + 3 AP
Editing by Janus Fouché
Music: “Imimoya (Spirits),” composed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu; “Works for Prepared Piano,” composed by John Cage, performed by Markus Hinterhäuser
2020.558
Miguel Ángel Ríos
2012
Single-channel video, edition 3/6
2015.69
