Spyder
Marilyn Minter's *Spyder* is a chromogenic print, flush-mounted, that exemplifies her signature hyper-realistic and sensuously charged aesthetic. The work likely depicts a close-up, highly magnified view of flesh, glitter, or adornment, blurring the line between desire and disgust with its slick, glossy surface. Flush-mounted to emphasize its photographic sheen, the piece implicates the viewer in a visceral confrontation with beauty culture and the consuming gaze.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print, flush-mounted.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 1, 2014
Artists in conversation
Richard Prince
American · b. 1949
Prince similarly appropriates and interrogates the slick visual language of advertising and glamour photography, producing large scale works that provoke the viewer into examining desire, consumption, and the constructed nature of beauty culture.
Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954
Sherman shares Minter's obsession with surface, femininity, and the consuming gaze, using high gloss photographic surfaces and close up framings to expose the unsettling artifice beneath beauty and glamour stereotypes.
Liz Cohen
American · b. 1973
Cohen creates provocative photographic works that fuse hyper real bodily imagery with glossy commercial aesthetics, similarly exploring sensuality, desire, and the tension between attraction and discomfort in contemporary beauty culture.
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