Marilyn Minter | Making Waves: Modern Aphrodites

Marilyn Minter | Making Waves: Modern Aphrodites AOC Les Artistes

The artist has created a body of work focused on the representations of femininity in popular American culture. In the last decade Marilyn Minter has produced original interpretations of “glamour gone awry”, an erotic obsession with glittery, mascara-laden lashes and muddy stilettos.

Especially in her images of lips gone wild, Marilyn Minter delves deeply into the ambivalence of American culture about female eroticism. Her female-friendly images express an eroticism suspended in the self-expression of most American women, capturing the reality that sensuality is fakely unnatural and uncomfortable to the majority of American women.