PPOW Gallery

PPOW Gallery P·P·O·W was founded by Wendy Olsoff and Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East-Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983.

In 1988 the gallery moved to Soho and in 2002 moved to Chelsea. P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, showing contemporary work in all media.

Scott Indrisek with Robin F. Williams for Artsy:“I don’t want to be concerned with how ‘high’ or ‘low’ it is,” Williams ...
03/31/2020

Scott Indrisek with Robin F. Williams for Artsy:

“I don’t want to be concerned with how ‘high’ or ‘low’ it is,” Williams says. “In fact, I like the challenge of making things sit next to each other that look like they shouldn’t.” The artist’s unruly, untamed women hang out somewhere in this sweet spot. It’s a joy to watch them, and to wonder where they’ll go next.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-robin-williams-revels-craft-painting

NOW LIVE · Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.March 26 - April 25, 2020https://www.hellisaplaceone...
03/26/2020

NOW LIVE · Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head.

March 26 - April 25, 2020

https://www.hellisaplaceonearth.com/

As humankind grapples with the overwhelming changes to daily life resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, these films confront bodily and societal restriction as well as destruction with “radical gestures” unique to each artist. Expressing spiritual, physiological, and sexual freedom, these films allow the viewer the rare opportunity to transcend culture's sovereign structures, conventions, and taboos.

TOMORROW:"Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head."P.P.O.W's first online exhibition!Featuring videos b...
03/25/2020

TOMORROW:

"Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head."

P.P.O.W's first online exhibition!

Featuring videos by:

David Wojnarowicz
Carolee Schneemann
Carlos Motta
Hunter Reynolds
Guadalupe Maravilla
Suzanne Treister

Expressing physical, sexual, and psychological freedom, these films allow the viewer the rare opportunity to transcend culture's sovereign structures, conventions, and taboos.

Image: David Wojnarowicz "Hell is a Place on Earth," (1990)

Carolee Schneemann's "Fuses" (1964-66), is "a silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lo******ng between Schnee...
03/23/2020

Carolee Schneemann's "Fuses" (1964-66), is "a silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lo******ng between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch."

"...I wanted to see if the experience of what I saw would have any correspondence to what I felt-- the intimacy of the lo******ng... And I wanted to put into that materiality of film the energies of the body, so that the film itself dissolves and recombines and is transparent and dense-- as one feels during lo******ng... It is different from any pornographic work that you've ever seen-- that's why people are still looking at it! And there's no objectification or fetishization of the woman." –Carolee Schneemann

http://www.caroleeschneemann.com/fuses.html

Featured in our new online exhibition is David Wojnarowicz's "When I Put My Hands on Your Body" (1989), done in collabor...
03/23/2020

Featured in our new online exhibition is David Wojnarowicz's "When I Put My Hands on Your Body" (1989), done in collaboration with French journalist and filmmaker Marion Scemama. The film is a reflection on love and loss, made after Wojnarowicz had already been diagnosed with AIDS, which would take his life three years later.

"Blue light streams from a projector and hits the screen as moving images. The images show a man tenderly kissing another man’s ni**le, moving his mouth along his ribs and over his stomach, before he removes the man’s belt from his jeans, using his teeth. A soundtrack accompanies the movements. We hear David Wojnarowicz’s (1954-1992) voice: 'It makes me weep to feel the history of your flesh beneath my hands in a time of so much loss.'"

- Inger Wold Lund for Kunstkritikk

https://kunstkritikk.com/modern-death-masks/

Our online film exhibition "Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head." launches Thursday! The site will...
03/23/2020

Our online film exhibition "Hell is a Place on Earth. Heaven is a Place in Your Head." launches Thursday!

The site will feature work from David Wojnarowicz, Carolee Schneemann, Carlos Motta, Hunter Reynolds, Guadalupe Maravilla, and Suzanne Treister.

https://ppowgallery.com/exhibition/6978/work

We would also like to share some stills from Allison Schulnik's "Moth" (2019), her incredible stop motion video made fro...
03/21/2020

We would also like to share some stills from Allison Schulnik's "Moth" (2019), her incredible stop motion video made from over 1500 gouache on paper works.

You can find the full video here, if you were unable to make it to the exhibition, or simply want to see it again!

https://vimeo.com/338469701

Today would have been the last day of Allison Schulnik's show "Hatch." Since today is also , we would like to share som...
03/21/2020

Today would have been the last day of Allison Schulnik's show "Hatch." Since today is also , we would like to share some of the work from her show featuring her cats Gin and Juice! Enjoy!

"Gin & Juice on Pink," (2019)
"Bovice #2," (2019)
"Old Gin #2," (2019)

We would also like to highlight some of Allison Schulnik's still life paintings today. As described by Sasha Bogojev for...
03/20/2020

We would also like to highlight some of Allison Schulnik's still life paintings today. As described by Sasha Bogojev for Juxtapoz Magazine:

"Using oil paint as clay, she sculpts snapshots of the flora and fauna around her new home that create a living, changing landscape."
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“Gin Bowl & Tarantula” (2019)
“Tartan and Chuckwalla” (2019)
“Desert Pincushion #4” (2019)

Today we wanted to highlight some of Allison Schulnik's works which relate to her meditation on the constant flux betwee...
03/20/2020

Today we wanted to highlight some of Allison Schulnik's works which relate to her meditation on the constant flux between life and death in the surrounding desert.

"Schulnik’s distinctive impasto technique lends her subjects—babies, seashells, wild animals, pets—a curious depth. The built-up areas jut out from the surface of her pictures in defiance of pictorial logic."

-Johanna Fateman, The New Yorker

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“Shell with Newborn Tupelo” (2019)
“Pregnant Coyote” (2019)
“Shell with Dead Studio Guys” (2019)

The Hong Kong Online Viewing Room opened to the public this morning. Our booth features new works from artists Kyle Du...
03/20/2020

The Hong Kong Online Viewing Room opened to the public this morning.

Our booth features new works from artists Kyle Dunn, Elizabeth Glaessner, and Judith Linhares, alongside works from Katharine Kuharic, Betty Tompkins, and the Estates of Martin Wong and David Wojnarowicz.

You can access our online viewing room here:
https://www.artbasel.com/events/detail/10922/Sincere-Company

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Kyle Dunn, "False Start" (2020)
Elizabeth Glaessner, "Hand Over Eyes," (2019)
Judith Linhares, "Untitled," 2020

Today we would also like to highlight a few of the landscapes from "Hatch."As Sasha Bogojev describes for Juxtapoz, "she...
03/19/2020

Today we would also like to highlight a few of the landscapes from "Hatch."

As Sasha Bogojev describes for Juxtapoz, "she explores the physical and psychological experience against the backdrop of Sky Valley's desert, a place that resonates with life, death, and reflection."

"Sky Valley Superbloom, April 2019" (2019)
"Sky Valley Moon" (2019)
"San Jacinto Snow, February 2019" (2019)

03/19/2020

working on his latest painting "False Start."

In his most recent interview for Juxtapoz Magazine, Dunn noted, "Making paintings is a way for me to distill messy situations in my life down to something understandable."

Stay tuned for more from inside the artists studios!

While the gallery is closed, we are still able to share some art from Allison Schulnik's "Hatch," in lieu of the final w...
03/19/2020

While the gallery is closed, we are still able to share some art from Allison Schulnik's "Hatch," in lieu of the final week of her show.

Today, we would like to highlight "Tupelo's Fox," (2019).

Here, Schulnik paints from memory a moment when she and a bright-eyed fox, a regular nighttime visitor to their property, locked eyes during a midnight nursing session with Tupelo. The fox, having been spotted, stares back through the frozen black night.

's brightly hued paintings and works on paper depict a grotesque utopia teeming with life and decay. This universe, whi...
03/19/2020

's brightly hued paintings and works on paper depict a grotesque utopia teeming with life and decay. This universe, which Glaessner has been expanding and repopulating for over a decade, features the theatrical and celebratory rituals that blur the line between dreams and nightmares.

Using pure pigments dispersed with water and various binders, her saturated and intricately layered scenes champion amorphous and evocative forms, inviting us into a surreal universe populated by androgynous beings, tricksters, and changelings.

"Marathon" (2016)

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