The Pam Show | Marilyn Minter

Marilyn Minter’s brand of hyper-realistic paintings have quickly risen from marginalized curiosity to full-fledged fame.  While she shies away from the label of “photo-realism”, her work does indeed begin with photographed moments.  What starts as a compilation of multiple scanned negatives turns into the inspiration for the canvas where Minter memorializes grit, sweat, and make-up mashed together with extreme angles and close-ups of body parts.  In her most recent exhibition, The Pam Show, Minter takes on sex icon Pamela Anderson and creates electric images that diffuse her media-popularized brand of sex appeal and explores the artists own interpretation of sensual desire.