NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin presents Marilyn Minter, an exhibition of new paintings by renowned multidisciplinary artist Marilyn Minter, marking her first solo exhibition in Seoul. Concurrent to the exhibition, Lehmann Maupin will present a focused selection of Minter’s work at Art Basel Hong Kong, open March 26—30, 2024.

In her first solo show in Seoul, Marilyn Minter presents a series of new works that depict vignettes of women’s lips and mouths, at once alluring and enigmatic. Both intimate and strange, the enamel-on-aluminum paintings lure the viewer in with the suggestion of something more. Across the exhibition, Minter’s compositions continue her bold exploration of glamor, beauty, and representation through a feminist lens.

Known for her decades-long career that encompasses photography, painting, video, and installation, Minter creates imagery that engages both hyperrealist and abstract technique. Her work has often centered around corporeal qualities and practices typically omitted from the mass-media depictions of women that dominate contemporary consumer culture, such as body hair, stretch marks, dirty feet, or acts of grooming. Rather than conceal such realities, the artist seeks to reframe these aspects of womanhood. Minter is also engaged with the art historical cannon, often using her signature lexicon to appropriate traditional tropes like the Odalisque or the Bather.

In Marilyn Minter, the artist’s compositions depict closely-cropped images of women’s faces, their mouths, lips, teeth, and décolletages adorned or open to varied degrees. In White Lotus (2023), a figure wears thick strands of pearls and beads, her open lips and jewelry obscured by steam and water droplets. Similarly, in Gilded Age (2023), dark red lips part to reveal a jewel-encrusted grill. The imagery is intimate yet strange, luring the viewer in with the suggestion of something more. Across the exhibition, Minter’s compositions continue her bold exploration of glamor, beauty, and representation through a feminist lens.

Marilyn Minter in Conversation with Jung-Ah Woo
Friday, March 29, 4:30 PM
Lehmann Maupin Seoul

The Seoul gallery is having an artist talk with Marilyn Minter and Jung-Ah Woo, art historian and professor at POSTECH. The program is free and open to the public, however prior RSVP is recommended as space is limited.

Lehmann Maupin
Marilyn Minter: Seoul
March 7th – April 27th