Love Letter Incinerators: Martin Wong’s Prison Paintings
“We know how much of sexuality there is in all cruelties, tortures, beatings.” —Frantz Fanon “Abolition requires we change one thing: everything.” —Ruth Wilson Gilmore I…
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I took a community-college workshop five years ago with Kirk Stoller, an artist whose work I could look at forever. Kirk used carpentry tailings…
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In “Martin Wong: Painting is Forbidden,” the Wattis Institute Largely Sidesteps Painting
“Basically everything I paint is in my immediate neighborhood, where I ended up,” Martin Wong said in a lecture in 1991. “So, people assume…
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