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Paul Thek Untitled (lips with turquoise) , 1984 Acrylic on canvas board, 14 × 18 in. Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody
In this painting, a pair of blue-gray lips sit at the center of a salmon-pink ground. The gestural marks above, and the undulating turquoise line beneath, conjure different visual associations: an automatic, bodily unfurling; a primordial expulsion from the mouth; or an explosion of language. In the context of the exhibition—and the Culina in which this painting is placed—it reiterates the motif of a mouth and its relationship to ingestion. —HJ
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