Zully Adler

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Martin Wong, Come Over Here Rockface , 1994, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 74 cm. Courtesy: the Martin Wong Foundation and P·P·O·W, New York

Martin Wong, Come Over Here Rockface, 1994, acrylic on canvas, 58 x 74 cm. Courtesy: the Martin Wong Foundation and P·P·O·W, New York

Never Quite Together: Martin Wong

A painter of urban brick abandonment, Chinatown merchants, and kissing inmates, Martin Wong is having a moment, kindled by an interest in intersectional figuration twenty years after his death. Yet his images of society’s margins are as enigmatic as they are empathetic: Hot yet held back, they reflect his desire to be both one with and apart from the worlds he drifted into.