Curated by Bill Arning and Elissa Auther

True to the maxim “Everything’s bigger in Texas,” this exhibition will be the most extensive survey to date by New York fixture Marilyn Minter. Gathering more than two dozen paintings made since 1976, the show delves deep into Minter’s oeuvre, past her iconic recent canvases of dolled-up orifices to more abstracted appropriations of vintage photographs and enamels of eroticized food. In the decade since Minter’s work was beamed into pop consciousness via prominent placement in the trashy, coyly satiric soap Gossip Girl, she has continued to ply her seductive, glossy imagery. Three videos and the artist’s earliest photographic series—featuring Minter’s pill-plagued but still-glamorous mother before a mirror—lend context and gravitas to the stuff she’s made so wretchedly gorgeous. Travels to MCA Denver, Sept. 18, 2015–Jan. 31, 2016; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, Apr. 1–July 10, 2016; Brooklyn Museum, 2016.

— Kevin McGarry