Press release
Baldwin Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition of works by New York–based artist Marilyn Minter, marking the gallery’s fifth show with the celebrated photographer and painter. In this latest series of photographs and paintings, Minter continues her incisive exploration of glamour, desire, and the shimmering—and sometimes perilous—threshold between seduction and scrutiny.
Minter’s images, often captured through panes of fogged, wet, or steamed glass, sharpen the viewer’s awareness of the voyeuristic dance between artist and subject. Jewel-toned surfaces, lush textures, and hyper-sensory detail draw the eye into a world where beauty and artifice collide. Her compositions examine the commodification of the female body while simultaneously reveling in the charged aesthetics of fashion photography. What gleams also threatens; the familiar becomes magnified, distorted, or unruly. In these new works, intimacies grow oversized, surfaces fracture, and desire turns both sumptuous and destabilizing—an invitation and a warning in the same breath.
Marilyn Minter is a contemporary American artist known for her distinctive mode of Photorealist painting and photography, interrogating contemporary notions of beauty and the cultural machinery that shapes them. Inspired by the visual languages of advertising and luxury imagery, her work complicates the seductive surfaces of consumer culture while exposing the psychological and emotional terrain beneath.
Minter has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Additional solo exhibitions are forthcoming at the Orange County Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum.
The public is invited to the opening reception on November 26th from 6–8 pm.
Images are available upon request. Please call 970.920.9797 for further information.