If you missed Marilyn Minter's most recent show at Salon 96 in the Bowery, which closed on December 4, you missed one of the purer pleasures of the fall season. The show featured a few of her large-scaled, hyper-detailed paintings — she hates the term "photorealist," so we won't use it — of some of her signature themes: close-ups of women's mouths and high-heeled shoes, all rendered with her signature atmosphere of dirty glamour.
The real stand-out of the show, however, was the new video work. Minter's long-time interest in video has been receiving increased attention, since her short clip "Green Pink Caviar" — a closeup of a mouth smearing colored caviar on glass — was unveiled in 2009. The standout new work at Salon 94, "Play Pen" (2011), features toddlers splashing around in a pool of viscous silver liquid, presented in super-slow-motion, so that the dynamics of the goo — and the looks of mixed joy and confusion on their faces as they discover these dynamics — are captured with dream-like emphasis.
Before the close of the show, ARTINFO sat down with Minter to get her thoughts on the new body of work.