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Friday, April 17, 2009

Visual Art This Is What Arrives in Your Inbox When You're on Betty Tompkins's Email List

Posted by on Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:02 AM

Betty Tompkins is the artist who has been making huge, realistic, explicit drawings and paintings of closeup sex acts since 1969. She showed at Lawrimore Project a few months ago, when I did a thoroughly enjoyable podcast with her. Since then I'm on her mailing list, and opening her emails is always an experience. On the jump is a FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK recent announcement I got for her new show at Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York (for some reason the link to the gallery site is broken).

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1
Ew.
Posted by Spoogie on April 17, 2009 at 10:16 AM
2
That is art. Totally SFW.
Posted by Jeremy from Seattle on April 17, 2009 at 10:17 AM
3
Ouch! The kitty looking at the pussy is a nice touch, though.
Posted by kittylvr on April 17, 2009 at 10:19 AM
4
Way to make your vag look even more like the face of a camel.
Posted by Sgiffy on April 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM
5
Nice muff.

Some of those studs look like they might hurt a guy. Maybe that's the point?
Posted by seandr on April 17, 2009 at 10:24 AM
6
I'm not gonna say Tompkin's a lousy artist because I'm not familiar with her work, but if that pic is representative of her body of work color me unimpressed.

Nice snatch lady.
Posted by Rotten666 on April 17, 2009 at 10:27 AM
7
Speaking of work, that reminds me: someone is waiting for me, out in the labia.
Posted by Pierce Genital on April 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM
8
is she a big lezbo?
Posted by or an "It's Pat"? on April 17, 2009 at 10:33 AM
9
Why are people in Seattle so concerned with their dicks, pussies, and assholes? It is so mundane compared to, say, the world falling apart and such.
Posted by the future will fuck you up on April 17, 2009 at 10:34 AM
10
Are those teeth?
Posted by w7ngman on April 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM
11
@10. Yes. She must not have gotten her vag-teeth pulled. Some say that, like circumcision, having the vag-teeth pulled is cruel and unnecessary. But, you know, moms want their daughters to "look like them" down there, and it's easier to keep things clean without them, so most parents opt to have them pulled.
Posted by Julie in Eugene on April 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM
12
that looks like it could use a cooling waterfall..
Posted by better living through chemistry on April 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM
13
Julie: You are awesome.
Posted by leek on April 17, 2009 at 10:46 AM
14
@Julie the process also helps avoid the tragedy of meth-muff.
Posted by mike on April 17, 2009 at 11:03 AM
15
They do this in Nigeria, too.
Posted by just admit you've got penis envy, lady on April 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM
16
That sort of thing always looks good to me but I can't believe that people do it. Ouch!
Posted by kresblamania on April 17, 2009 at 11:17 AM
17
"Get away from her, you bitch!"
Posted by Original Andrew on April 17, 2009 at 11:22 AM
18
@9, because unlike the earth I can control how clean my dick is and where its heading.
Posted by sgiffy on April 17, 2009 at 11:36 AM
19
@9

there is NOTHING in this world more important than my dick, and there is nothing less important than yours.
Posted by wisepunk on April 17, 2009 at 11:48 AM
20
On another note, anybody want to go to Honey Hole for lunch? I'm suddenly hungry for a hot-open-faced roast beef sandwich.
Posted by wisepunk on April 17, 2009 at 11:51 AM
21
I'm reminded of John Waters' commentary for Pecker, and how he got away with an R-rating for a shot like that.

Something along the lines of: "I can't believe I got away with that. So many people can't get an R-rating with full nudity, but I have a full-screen vagina. I think I got it because it is a happy bush."
Posted by TheMisanthrope on April 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM
22
I demand you celebrate my vagina and my anus! If you don't, then you are a bigot!
Posted by buttfuck my vagina now on April 17, 2009 at 2:24 PM
23
Oh crap. I was making one exactly like that and she beat me to it.
Posted by elenchos on April 17, 2009 at 2:44 PM
24
The cat's a nice touch, but the feet are the best part. Almost as if to suggest that ladies are nothing but HUGE WALKING SEX ORGANS. Which, on some days, it feels like we are.
Posted by arts&letters on April 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM
25
It's the brain bug from Starship Troopers.
Posted by Marco on April 17, 2009 at 7:57 PM
26
For some reason I'm reminded of a crab carapace... a male crab, at that. (& so relieved that no one made an illusion to the Ring of Power at the Gates of Mordor... thanks, everyone!)
^..^
Posted by herbert browne on April 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
27
Julie, your awesomeness defies description.
Posted by TVDinner on April 17, 2009 at 10:21 PM
28
Is that the new chastity belt? Or just some DIY with rivets by a bored construction worker?
Posted by M'thew on April 18, 2009 at 4:44 AM

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