Tompkins carefully crops out faces or body parts to excise narrative detail, enlarging the scale to fill large expanses of wall.
By emptying her paintings of signifiers of race, class, time, and circumstance, Tompkins presents erotic encounters between two or sometimes more powerfully consonant bodies. Frontrunner editor Shauna Mason talks to two of her artistic icons: Deb Kass and Betty Tompkins; old-school conference-call style. Artist Betty Tompkins, whose work frequently explores physical intimacy through a feminist lens, told ARTnews that she has been kicked off Instagram for sharing an image of her Fuck Painting 1 , which is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The work is the first in a series of photorealistic paintings she made of sex, many of which feature genitalia. The exhibition of 34 pieces by 27 artists mixes art of all shapes and stripes to form a freewheeling feast.
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