About The Work
Aching to Touch Her (Print) is one from a set of four prints, which are based on paintings included in the artist’s exhibition WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories from January – May 2016 at the FLAG Foundation, New York.
The exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation of 1,000 intimately-scaled, hand-painted works, each of which features a word or words used to describe women. Ranging from flirtatious to derogatory – with the four most used words being Mother, Slut, Bitch, Cunt – WOMEN Words emanates from Tompkins’s career-long commitment to challenge the representation of female identity, the politics of pleasure, and the role of sexuality in contemporary culture.
– Maureen Sullivan
Courtesy of Art + Culture Projects
About Betty Tompkins
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Four color silkscreen on coventry rag
12.00 x 14.00 in
30.5 x 35.6 cm
This work is signed and numbered.
About The Work
Aching to Touch Her (Print) is one from a set of four prints, which are based on paintings included in the artist’s exhibition WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories from January – May 2016 at the FLAG Foundation, New York.
The exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation of 1,000 intimately-scaled, hand-painted works, each of which features a word or words used to describe women. Ranging from flirtatious to derogatory – with the four most used words being Mother, Slut, Bitch, Cunt – WOMEN Words emanates from Tompkins’s career-long commitment to challenge the representation of female identity, the politics of pleasure, and the role of sexuality in contemporary culture.
– Maureen Sullivan
Courtesy of Art + Culture Projects
About Betty Tompkins
From The Magazine
- Interviews & Features: The Artspace Group Show: Text As Art - Art As Text
- Art 101: 10 Contemporary Erotic Artworks From Some of Today's Most-Known Artists
- Art 101: It's Never Too Late: 6 Artists Who Found Fame Later In Life
- Interviews & Features: What Does 2016 Hold for the Art World? Read Forecasts From Artists, Dealers, Collectors, Curators, & More
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