BRUSSELS.- Betty Tompkins (born in 1945 in Washington D.C. USA) is presenting her forth solo project with the gallery in Rodolphe Janssen's space at 32 rue de Livourne.

Since the late 1960’s, Betty Tompkins has been painting her Fuck, Cunt or Kiss Paintings, studying different mediums going from airbrush to stamps, graphite powder or fingerprints.

Beside the feminist content of her work, her intention from the start was to have two distinct elements which would allow the abstract and the sexual content to coexists equally in the work. She imposes a distance with her explicit subjects, or as she says : « I see something intimate made monumental - we see a visual we don’t usually see in a medium we don’t expect. »

After some group shows in the early 1970’s, and a few episodes of censorship, her work remained widely overlooked by the critics and art market due to its subject matter, until in 2003, she was invited to participate in the 7th Biennale de Lyon. This brought extraordinary attention to her work, and the Centre Georges Pompidou acquired Fuck Painting #1 for its permanent collection the same year.

Her works have been shown at Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY USA; The Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany; Fortnight Institute, New York, NY USA; Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX USA; Houston Museum of Modern Art, Houston, TX USA; Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, CT USA;, PS1, New York, NY USA; Juniata Museum of Art, Huntingdon, PA USA and The Biennale de Lyon 2003 Lyon, France.