b. 1948
Born in Shreveport, LA in 1948, Minter went on to receive her BA from the University of Florida at Gainesville and an MFA from Syracuse University in 1972. Minter deftly explores American culture’s pathology of glamour through painting, photography, and video works which focus primarily on the female body and its treatment in popular media. From early bodies of work, including Coral Ridge Towers, a critically lauded series which captured the artist’s mother in shocking intimacy, to her Food Porn paintings, which anticipated the contemporary aestheticization of food and consumption in the digital age, Minter’s images are always powerfully urgent. In striking Photorealist paintings and sexually charged photographs, Minter abstracts her subjects as she reimagines them at the cusp of beauty.
In recent years, the artist has turned her attention to the bather as subject. Once the domain of a male-dominated Western art historical canon, Minter’s bathers express their own agency, oftentimes pictured behind frosty or steamed panes of glass, and are atypically discriminating in how they allow the viewer to consume their image. Minter is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2006) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1998).
In recent years, the artist has turned her attention to the bather as subject. Once the domain of a male-dominated Western art historical canon, Minter’s bathers express their own agency, oftentimes pictured behind frosty or steamed panes of glass, and are atypically discriminating in how they allow the viewer to consume their image. Minter is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant (2006) and the Guggenheim Fellowship (1998).
