Article: 'Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty' at OCMA Nails the Artist's Pathology of Beauty
You'll need a shower after seeing "Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty," the famed artist's confrontational retrospective currently at Orange County Museum of Art. Obsessed with "the pathology of beauty," her disconcerting paintings, photographs and films expose the way commercial imagery—much of it geared toward women—is used to seduce and abandon the market it's targeted to. It's ugly, erotic and dank work, even pornographic, presented by curators Elissa Auther and Bill Arning with a steady hand, a clear eye and zero apologies.
