http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma And there's definitely a NSFW image if you click here. Tompkins began making Fuck paintings in 1969. It was the height of minimalism and conceptual art, so she thought she'd try calling them Joined Forms. She eventually dropped the act and just called them Fuck paintings, adding Dick paintings and Cunt paintings, too. What keeps a woman working on photorealistic paintings of hard-core heterosexual pornography for 40 years? Well, she did take a break in the late 70s and early 80s to make works that were all text, of which she says: "I bored myself silly, so I went back... Copyright 2008 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:00:00 -0800 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:53:00 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Photorealism? She should work for Marvel comics...

]]> Sirkowski http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178188 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178188 Visual Art Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:06:31 -0800 Someone has to do it.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178199 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178199 Visual Art Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:31:52 -0800 I saw one of her pieces at the Pompidou in Paris a few years ago, and it was way less provocative to the French than the giant guillotine with the word "CHANEL" painted over and over on it. That got teeth gnashing!

]]> Sonya http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/invisible_is_up_its_betty_tompkins_on_ma#c1178541 Visual Art Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:53:00 -0800