Marilyn Minter, "Paintings from the ’80s"

Before the 2006 Whitney Biennial made Marilyn Minter an overnight success, this painter known for deconstructing widely held assumptions about glamour had been producing and exhibiting work in New York for 30 years. The 1980s were key, perhaps, in Minter's development, because it was during this period that she took the greatest risks, especially with the "Porn Grid" series from 1989, in which the artist used hard-core erotic imagery to draw a direct corollary between painting and money shots. Those works and others from that decade—including Minter's "Bad Girls" and "Little Girls" series—are revisited here.