Marilyn Minter
Wangechi Gold #3

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© 2009 Marilyn Minter

Wangechi Gold #3
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ArtistAmerican, born 1948
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Wangechi Gold #3
Date2009, printed 2022
MediumInkjet print face-mounted on acrylic
DimensionsImage: 83 3/4 × 63 in. (212.7 × 160 cm)
Sheet: 83 3/4 × 63 in. (212.7 × 160 cm)
Mount: 83 3/4 × 63 in. (212.7 × 160 cm)
Frame: 85 1/2 × 64 3/4 × 2 1/4 in. (217.2 × 164.5 × 5.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. and Susie Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2022.53
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


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. Like a glamorous fashion shoot gone astray, this uncomfortably close-up view of an open mouth dripping liquid gold draws one in and then pushes back.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Salon 94, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.

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