Marilyn Minter

Critically-acclaimed American artist Marilyn Minter is perhaps best known for her provocative and hyperrealistic paintings that simultaneously capture candid instances of the human body and the human condition. The intoxicating Sauna (2017) is a remarkably photorealistic painting that captures the artist’s propensity towards sensuousness and the subversion of the traditional objectification of female subjects in art. A woman is partially concealed behind translucent, hazy glass clouded with the tangible density of a sauna, withholding from the viewer while also remaining an object of desire.