Lina Maple at SARCA: A Stiletto Story

I had the pleasure of hearing Marilyn Minter speak this week in the Modern Wing. I was first introduced to Minter at one of my favorite NYC galleries, Salon 94. Her work focuses mainly on stereotypes and pushing feminist boundaries and has appeared in numerous editorials and billboards. It was her ability to piggyback off of these commissioned jobs that allowed her to create art in the capacity it was meant to be created. Her mastery of light and intricate attention to detail is what makes her work truly special and is best seen in her shoe series where she depicts stiletto heeled 3am girls. In these works, she juxtaposes something luxurious with something grimy and something unattainable with something unavoidable. From the looks of it, the new shipment of Ruthie Davis shoes soon to be at SARCA would fit right in!