Installing Kick Silver for Chewing Color
Courtesy of Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, CINCINNATI

Marilyn Minter - Chewing Color
CAC Cincinnati
October 3, 2009 - May 2, 2010

Green Pink Caviar made its U.S. museum debut as part of Minter’s solo show at Contemporary Arts Center. The exhibition focused on the most recent additions to Minter’s oeuvre, showing some of her newest paintings and photographs alongside a projection of Green Pink Caviar.

Green Pink Caviar in Fountain Square, 5th Street & Vine Street, Cincinnati
Courtesy of Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, CINCINNATI

Marilyn Minter - Chewing Color
CAC Cincinnati
October 3, 2009 - May 2, 2010

In conjunction with her show at the Contemporary Arts Center, Minter's film, Green Pink Caviar, played on loop in Fountain Square, 5th Street & Vine Street, Cincinnati.

8401 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

GREEN PINK CAVIAR ON SUNSET BOULEVARD

Video: 9039 Sunset Blvd
Trailer: 8410 Sunset Blvd
October – December, 2009

Green Pink Caviar made its west coast debut on two high definition billboards as a public art project in West Hollywood. The eight-minute video played above the Key Club at 9039 Sunset Blvd once every hour, while the 60-second trailer could be seen at 8410 Sunset Blvd across from the Andaz Hotel.

Made possible by West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission and Art on the Outside Committee.

Orange Crush (work in progress)
Photo Credit: Johan Olander

MARILYN MINTER AT REGEN PROJECTS

Marilyn Minter
Regen Projects
October 24 - December 5, 2009

Marilyn Minter's first solo exhibition at Regen Projects highlighted her series of paintings featuring female mouths. The exhibition also devoted a portion of the gallery to her photographic series featuring Pamela Anderson.

Hammer Museum

UCLA DEPARTMENT OF ART LECTURES: MARILYN MINTER

October 22, 2009, 7pm
Hammer Museum

On October 22, 2009 Marilyn Minter participated in the Visiting Artists Lecture Series presented by the UCLA Department of Art at the Hammer Museum. During the talk, Minter showed Green Pink Caviar and talked about her work. Admission was free and opened to the public. Click here for more information.

Kick Silver and Green Pink Caviar installed at Space 3
Courtesy of La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo

LA CONSERVERA, MURCIA, SPAIN

Marilyn Minter
La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Ceutí/Murcia, Spain
September 13, 2009 - November 22, 2009

The exhibition at La Conserva’s Space 3 includes five distinct bodies of Minter’s work offering one of the most complete readings of Minter’s output. The photographic series Coral Ridge Towers, taken in 1969 and concealed from public view by the artist’s own decision for over three decades, shows the decline of a woman (her mother) addicted to sleeping pills over the course of a weekend — a ragged ghost of a woman stubbornly clinging to, but inevitably failing to achieve Hollywood beauty standards. Kick Silver, her first wallpaper series covers two enormous cubes leading to the projection of Green Pink Caviar at the far end of the gallery. In addition, the Bubble painting series and the Pamela Anderson photographic series of Pamela Anderson is also on display. 

Intermix Store at Robertson Blvd, Los Angeles

MARILYN MINTER COLLABORATES WITH INTERMIX FOR BRIGHT PINK

Intermix
Bright Pink
October 2009
Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York Intermix Stores

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in time for the west coast debut of Green Pink Caviar, Marilyn Minter collaborated with Intermix to design a limited-edition tote bag featuring a still from the film. Only available in select Intermix stores during the month of October 2009, a portion of the proceeds from the bag benefit Bright Pink, an organization devoted to supporting and advocating breast cancer awareness. The Green Pink Caviar trailer will be screening throughout the month at Intermix locations where the bags are available in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Madonna performs "Candy Shop"
Getty Images

MARILYN MINTER TEAMS UP WITH MADONNA

Sticky & Sweet European 2009 Tour
July 4 - September 2
Click To View Marilyn's Favorite YouTube Tour Videos

When Madonna kicked off her Sticky & Sweet tour on July 4th in London, the Queen of Pop opened the evening with her new hit “Candy Shop,” performed under a multi-screen installation of Marilyn Minter’s Green Pink Caviar. The original film was re-edited with dramatic visual cuts to synchronize with the song for Madonna’s tour.

Invitation for launch of Green Pink Caviar at Project X

GREEN PINK CAVIAR AT NO SOUL FOR SALE
PRESENTED BY ARTBOOK@X

More then 30 of the most respected not-for-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises from around the world were invited by X Initiative to participate in NO SOUL FOR SALE – A Festival Of Independents. Individuals and groups who devote their energy to keeping art alive made presentations with artists and performers as a way of showcasing their unique programming. Among them, ARTBOOK@X screened Green Pink Caviar throughout the five-day festival and invited Marilyn Minter to give a talk about the making of the film.

Installation View: Marilyn Minter, Pop Rocks, 2009, enamel on metal, 108 x 180 inches
Photo Credit: Tom Powell Imaging, New York

GREEN PINK CAVIAR AT SALON 94

Green Pink Caviar
New Photographs and Paintings by Marilyn Minter
Salon 94 Freemans
April 28 - June 13

Marilyn Minter presented monumental paintings alongside large-scale photographs for her second solo exhibition at Salon 94, Green Pink Caviar. With extreme close ups of tattooed and freckled skin, mouths blowing bubbles, and tongues licking candy, Minter continued her exploration of the underbelly of glamour, provocatively undermining our cultural taste for the clean and flawless.

Minter’s striking 15-foot painting, Pop Rocks, her largest to date, explores the idea of painting with the tongue. The image was inspired by a photo shoot where Minter directed her models to lick brightly colored candies while she shot photos from underneath a glass plate. The models' tongues mixed the colorful sugar with saliva, slurping and pushing color across the glass surface to simulate painting. The results of these action paintings are featured in two photographs, Gimmie and Chewing Pink, in which the models seem to regurgitate their own makeup.

Sunshine Cinema, 143 E Houston Street, New York, NY
Photo by Aleksandra Mir, courtesy of the artist and Gavlak, West Palm Beach

GREEN PINK CAVIAR THE TRAILER AT SUNSHINE CINEMA

Green Pink Caviar Trailer
Sunshine Cinema
Midnight Screenings
April 24 - June 13

Playfully emulating movie advertising, Marilyn Minter created a 60-second trailer that played before midnight showings at Sunshine Cinema throughout the duration of her solo exhibition, Green Pink Caviar (2009), at Salon 94. This trailer continues Minter’s boundary-blurring explorations between art and advertising, which began in 1989 when she advertised her exhibition, 100 Food Porn, with a 30-second commercial that aired during Late Night with David Letterman, The Arsenio Hall Show, and Nightline. In 2006, concurrent with her participation in The Whitney Biennial, Minter partnered with Creative Time to exhibit three of her photographs on giant billboards that hung over Chelsea.

MTV HD Billboard, Times Square, NY
Image courtesy of Creative Time

CHEWING COLOR IN TIMES SQUARE
PRESENTED BY CREATIVE TIME AT 44 1/2

Chewing Color: Patty Chang, Kate Gilmore, Marilyn Minter
Video Exhibition Curated by Marilyn Minter
Times Square, on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets
April 1 - May 31, 2009

As part of Creative Times's ongoing program of video art, At 44 1/2, shown on MTV’s gilded, outdoor, HD billboard in Times Square, Marilyn Minter curated an exhibition that investigates what she calls “the pathology of glamour." Chewing Color strikes a delicate balance between beauty and disgust with Patty Chang’s Fan Dance (2003), Kate Gilmore’s Star Bright, Star Might (2007), and Marilyn Minter’s Green Pink Caviar (2009).