Munsons Tag

The artist’s immersive artwork explores mass consumerism and the forces of ‘empowerment and entrapment’ impregnated in constructs of femininity In 1994, Marcia Tucker, founder and director of the Latest Museum, opened a two-part show titled Bad Girls. It featured over 50 artists working across painting, sculpture, performance, film, and writing. Alongside Laura Aguilar, Guerrilla Girls, and Carrie Mae Weems was artist Portia Munson, a Cooper Union graduate who debuted hundreds of collected pink objects meticulously arranged on an enormous pink table: tampon applicators, dildos, fake nails, pacifiers, hair brushes, mirrors. It was titled “Pink Project (Table)” (1994 – ongoing). Visually, the work resulted from Munson’s almost-obsessive...