A matter of time

Porn Grid #3, 1989
After the Shafrazi show, Minter began to generate “some buzz,” as she puts it. She landed a one-person exhibit at the alternative space White Columns, a rare if not unheard-of honor. For White Columns, she created the first of a series of paintings based on porn images—inspired, Minter says, by bad-boy artists like Mike Kelley. “I wondered, What’s the subject matter that no woman artist would go near? Hard-core porn! And I thought, What would it mean if a woman artist did that?” Porn Grid #3 was subsequently included in the group show “Erotomania” at Simon Watson Gallery. Watson then invited her to do a solo outing.