Marilyn Minter American, b. 1948

Marilyn Minter (b. 1948) is a multidiscipinary artist living and working in New York exploring themes of beauty and the female gaze. Tackling the art hisotical canon by reinterpreting traditional genres such as bathers and portraiture.To create her work, Minter utilizes a combination of modern technology and centuries-old painting techniques. She employs Photoshop as a drawing tool, using a labor-intensive process of manipulating and recombining original photographs to create a new image with as many as 100 layers. The final composition serves as reference. Minter developed her signature  style over several decades; she applies thin layers of enamel paint, building up layers of color over months and sometimes years to achieve a sense of depth and complex surface effects. Minter has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and held in major institutional collections including the Tate, London; Museum of Modern Art; New York, Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, among others.