{"id":3255,"date":"2016-02-10T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T01:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3255"},"modified":"2018-05-06T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T22:18:24","slug":"betty-tompkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/betty-tompkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Tompkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1356\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3255-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/bettytompkins.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/bettytompkins.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/bettytompkins.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3259\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?resize=625%2C941&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"betty tompkins\" width=\"625\" height=\"941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?resize=680%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?resize=199%2C300&amp;ssl=1 199w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?resize=768%2C1157&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?resize=624%2C940&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/betty-tompkins.jpg?w=850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/>Betty Tompkins (b. 1945, Washington, D.C.) is an artist living and working in New York, NY, and Pleasant Mount, PA. Upcoming exhibitions includeBlack Sheep Feminism, curated by Alison Gingeras, Dallas Contemporary, TX (January \u2013 March 2016) and Gavlak Gallery LA. Recent solo exhibitions include Real Ersatz, FUG, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY (2015);\u00a0Art Basel Feature, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Basel, Switzerland (2014);\u00a0Paintings &amp; Works on Paper 1972-2013,\u00a0Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (2014);\u00a0Woman Words, Dinter Fine Art, Project room #63, New York (2013);\u00a0Fuck Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (2012); New Work,\u00a0Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York (2009), among others. Tompkins\u2019s work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including The Shell (LANDSCAPES, PORTRAITS &amp; SHAPES),\u00a0Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France (2014);\u00a0A Drawing Show,\u00a0Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (2014);\u00a0CORPUS, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2014); A Chromatic Loss, Bortolami Gallery, New York (2014);\u00a0Sunset and Pussy,\u00a0Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (2013);\u00a0Elles, Centre Pompidou, Paris ((2011) ; among others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>The FLAG Art Foundation<\/b>\u00a0presents\u00a0<b>Betty Tompkins:\u00a0<i>WOMEN Words, Phrases, and Stories<\/i><\/b>\u00a0from\u00a0<b>January 20 \u2013 May 14, 2016<\/b>, on FLAG\u2019s 10th floor gallery. 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 \u2013 with the four most used words being<i>Mother<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Slut<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Bitch<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Cunt<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<i>WOMEN Words<\/i>\u00a0emanates from Tompkins\u2019s career-long commitment to challenge the representation of female identity, the politics of pleasure, and the role of sexuality in contemporary culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Interviewed by <span class=\"s1\">Angela Lynn Fraleigh for this program.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/bettytompkins.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listBetty Tompkins (b. 1945, Washington, D.C.) is an artist living and working in New York, NY, and Pleasant Mount, PA. Upcoming exhibitions includeBlack Sheep Feminism, curated by Alison Gingeras, Dallas Contemporary, TX (January \u2013 March 2016) and Gavlak Gallery LA. 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