From staged interiors and constructed landscapes to live portraits and long-term collaborations, this month’s exhibitions examine how things are created, whether that’s images, communities or identities. Across London, New York, Marrakech, and beyond, there’s a mix of approaches, with some works made over years while others come to life in real time. What connects many of these shows is a shared focus on process – how something can come into being, and what changes and evolves as it does. Until next month!
MARTIN WONG, POPEYE, NYC, USA
Late Chinese-American painter Martin Wong’s Popeye centres on a rarely seen body of work where the famed cartoon sailor becomes a recurring cypher, pulled through Wong’s wider visual language of text, symbol, and subculture. Nine motorised Popeye sculptures anchor the show, looping somewhere between shrine and spectacle, cartoon, and totem. Around them, drawings and paintings trace Wong’s long-standing fascination with comic books, tattoo iconography, and vernacular image-making, where “low” and “high” collapse into the same register.
Popeye runs 18 April – 30 May 2026 at P·P·O·W, NYC, USA