Martin Wong
Sculpture Magazine
Martin Wong began working on painted plywood cutouts of Popeye the Sailor Man in 1989. His intention, never realized during his lifetime, was to motorize the arms of each figure so that they would rock up and down on a central pivot.
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In The Studio: Carlos Motta interrogates the history of form
art21
In an interview conducted by Phillip Pyle, Motta discusses Pleas of Resistance and his mode of historiography.
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Art Gallery Shows to See in April
The New York Times
For Wong, the brick was a formalist wink that’s even flatter than Jasper Johns’s American flags and doubly as impenetrable. More than 25 years after Wong’s death, we’re still trying to get in.
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