Images of works by artist Betty Tompkins
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09/19/2011
Fuck Painting #41 | Nordstierna | Kristian Nammack

This is the photo that was printed with Kristian Nammack's article.




09/19/2011
Betty Tompins's F**k Paintings | Nordstierna | Kristian Nammack



09.07.2011
Invitation to the Voyage at Algus Greenspon | Art in New York City | Michael Sorgatz



1.2011
/Interview withBetty Tompkins | F/ilthyGorgeousTh/ings | Christina Voss

The SHOCK issue.




10.28.2010
HAIKU REVIEW: Consider the Oyster | The Huffington Post | Peter Frank

Consider The Oyster at James Graham & Sons.  Curated by Ingrid Dinter.




10.13.2010
Consider the Oyster | City Arts | Maureen Mallarkey

Consider the Oyster at James Graham & Sons, NYC.  Curated by Ingrid Dinter.




6.8.2009
Vienna Fair 2009 | artnet | Julie Ryan

Revolver at CoCo, Vienna.  Curated by Christian Kobald and Severin Dunser




6.7.2009
Betty Tompkins: Fuck Paintings | Happy bodies | Becky



6.6.2009
NSFW: Again! But it's Art, Honestly! | cripwheels.blogspot.com | Wheelchair Dancer



5.21.2009
/Daily Fix | F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs



5.20.2009
Gotham Art & Theater | artnet | Elisabeth Kley



6.17.2008
Betty Tompkins: On Making Fuck Paintings Since 1969 (NSFW Image Included) | The Stranger | Jen Graves

Listen to the interview/podcast.




07.17.2007
Handsome Young Doctor at Cubitt, London | Saatchi Online | Lupe Nunez-Fernandez
Looking at the future is unpredictably linked to looking at the past: historically disregarded artist Betty Tompkins presents two new sexually explicit paintings bearing a graphic aesthetic similar to her controversial older, highly genitally-inclined photorealistic works . History books, move over; let's start again.



05.21.2007
Weekend Update | artnet | Walter Robinson
Still another fun artwork on view in town is a painting from the late 1960s by Betty Tompkins, a black-and-white airbrush Photo Realist close-up of an overscaled mons veneris with a tiny Holstein cow perched on top, apparently grazing away on the pubic growth........



05.11.2007
Listings | New York Magazine | Jerry Saltz
The work Betty Tompkins has produced over her long career is as good and tough as anything the Mitchell Algus Gallery is displaying in the two current feminist shows. That's why we're glad the gallery is also showing Sex Work, Tompkins's ravishing, randy new paintings depicting close-ups of coitus, double penetration, and a couple of bejeweled vaginas. The ample, ungroomed pubic hair on display suggests that Tompkins, weirdly enough, seems to be using old porn for her sources.



12.08.2006
Betty Tompkins: SoHo Artist Is Censored in France and Japan | Museum Security Network | Charles V. Sabba
The artist Betty Tompkins moved to SoHo, New York in 1969. Betty began a series of black and white air brush paintings called Joined Forms, which were cropped paintings of heterosexual intercourse. The artist states that in these paintings, created during this beginning era of feminism, she was deliberately appropriating the male gaze. She showed these works in various galleries in SoHo, including LoGuidice Gallery and Warren Benedek. In 1973, Betty was invited to exhibit in Guy Loudmer's in Paris. This led to a ludicrous censorship by French Customs officials and a year of legal wrangling on the artist's part to repatriate the art works......



12.01.2006
Betty Tompkins "Joined Forms" | YourBrushWithTheLaw | Charlie Sabba
In this friendly interview, Betty, one of my all time favorite New York artists, discusses with me some of the most important issues facing the art world today, such as museum ethics in antiquities, censorship, and freedom of expression in an ever increasing ultra-conservative atmosphere.......



04.10.2005
Betty Tompkins, fuck paintings, fuck paint, fucking paintings! | Le Beau Vice | Elisabeth Lebovici
1969 : erotic year. In New York, Betty Tompkins began a series of paintings in black and white, of explicit cropped images of heterosexual intercourse, painted with the airbrush, that would eventually be called the "Fuck Paintings ». For a woman artist, it was, as we say in French « culotté », which means she had the fucking nerve to do it.............



12.09.2004
Betty Tompkins Portfolio | NeoImages.com |



01.01.2004
Photography Portfolio V: [Untitled Nudes] | Printed Matter, New York NY
Curated by Larry Clark
Synopsis: [Untitled / Nudes] consists of ten images, one each by ten artists selected by Clark, including Donald Baechler, Cecily Brown, Clark, Ralph Gibson, Terence Koh, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Albert Oehlen, Thomas Ruff, and Betty Tompkins as well as a work by Clark himself.



10.22.2002
Weekend Update | artnet | Walter Robinson
Doing a star turn at Betty Tompkins' opening of her "Fuck Paintings" from the early 1970s at Mitchell Algus was Joan Rivers. . . .



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