“Monica’s image has been used against her in awful ways,” Minter told Jezebel of her portrait of Lewinsky. “And I wanted to change that narrative.”
The first time I saw one of Minter’s pieces was at the San Francisco MoMA in 2005. I was 15 years old and herwhich featured red-painted lips drenched in sweat and biting a string of pearls—stopped me in my tracks. Smutty and lustful, the wanton painting reflected curious parts of myself that, as a young teenager, I hadn’t quite uncovered.
Minter’s work asks you to consider the layers of identities—physical, emotional, and cosmetic—that women and femmes construct for themselves. “I approach all of my subjects with care and sensitivity,” Minter said. “The goal is to make a great painting that captures each person’s unique essence.” I’d add that this recent work not only captures a person’s unique essence but protects it as well.
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