The male-dominated mythologizing that has animated American painting since the end of World War II moves front and center as a subject. It's no wonder that her own work crystallized in the 1980s. That's the decade when the macho heroics of '50s Abstract Expressionism were replayed in figurative Neo-Expressionist art.
The show opens earlier, with Minter's frank, 1969 photographs of her rather dissolute mother in Coral Gables, Fla. Black-and-white portraits often show her out of focus from behind but crisply reflected in a mirror.
Through the looking glass — also a metaphor for the camera lens — things seem just fine.