Maralyn Minter

I got home from vacation yesterday and was going through all my Christmas cards (thanks everybody!) and found this image among the seasons' greetings. Maybe it's not so Christmassy but I loved it and had to share! It's a photo by art star Marilyn Minter, who used to teach me at SVA. Marilyn is a very loved artist here in NY and from her pictures I'm sure you can see why! For the past several years Marilyn has created photo-realistic paintings using her photos of glittering sweaty close-ups of women dripping with jewels or other finery. These semi-erotic paintings glint and pulse with nocturnal glamour. 'Minter is one of several artists of the 1980's whose work is a link between the often-disparaged Photo Realism of the 1960's and 70's and the style's current re-emergence.'
One of her images was featured to publicize the latest edition of the 'Whitney Biennial'. She has an upcoming show of her photographs at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen from Dec 26-Jan 31. Click here for a photo of the artist.