Betty Tompkins' Fuck Paintings were begun in the early 1970s and are based on surreptitiously obtained hardcore pornographic magazines, feature gynecological close ups of penetration, and are painted in an extraordinary and gorgeous monographic palette. This is sex, but on an Olympian scale; It's a distance and far-from-dumb view of heterosexual coupling, but none the less erotic for that. Text by Martin Herbert. BUY HERE