Martin Wong - Popeye

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Martin Wong: Popeye, the gallery's sixth solo exhibition of the artist's work, and the first solo show of Martin Wong in New York in over a decade. Co-curated by Mark Dean Johnson and Anneliis Beadnell, Popeye examines Wong's lifelong preoccupation with artistic subcultures—namely comic book illustration and early tattoo imagery—as reoccurring motifs in the artist's lexicon of images and symbols. In so doing, this presentation brings together disparate bodies of work created over three decades of Wong's career, highlighting an under explored throughline in Wong's output that is equally indebted to lowbrow comix as it is to the highbrow associations of Asian and European art histories.