Betty Tompkins exhibition "
Sex Works/WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories" includes the installation below of 1,000 paintings from the WOMEN Words series. The paintings are a document of "3,500 submission she received in response to two requests sent to her entire email list — the first in 2002 and a second in 2013.
“I am considering doing another series of pieces using images of women comprised of words. I would appreciate your help in developing the vocabulary. Please send me a list of words that describe women. They can be affectionate (honey), pejorative (bitch), slang, descriptive, etc. The words don’t have to be in English but I need as accurate a translation as possible. Many, many thanks, Betty Tompkins.”
The four most common words were the same each time: “bitch,” “slut,” “cunt,” and “mother.” Tompkins began painting the words at times purely as text and others using the visual paint language of in her words 'old boy painters'.
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| Installation view, Betty Tompkins |
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| Installation view, Betty Tompkins |
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| Betty Tompkins |
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| Betty Tompkins |
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