My Secret World 1978-81
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Creator
- Wong, Martin
Subjects
- Place depicted
- Meyer’s Hotel, 117 South Street, New York, NY
- Associated topics
- Bricks
- Eight Balls
- American Sign Language (fingerspelling)
- Meyer’s Hotel Bedroom
- Books
- Dice
- Windows
- Genre
- Interior
Bibliographic information
- Related publications
- Glenn O’Brien, “Semaphore Gallery,” Artforum 23, no. 4 (December 1984): 83.
- Barry Blinderman, “The Writing on the Wall (Every Picture Tells a Storey, Don’t It?): Tenement and Storefront Paintings, 1984–1986,” in Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, ed. Amy Scholder (New York: Rizzoli and New Museum Books, 1998), 18, 20.
- Dan Cameron, “Brick by Brick: New York according to Martin Wong,” in Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, ed. Amy Scholder (New York: Rizzoli and New Museum Books, 1998), 5.
- Barry Schwabsky, “A City of Bricks and Ciphers,” Art in America 86, no. 9 (September 1998): 100, 103.
- Jeffrey Bruce, “Red Brick and Chain Link,” The International Review of African American Art 16, no. 4 (2002): 40.
- Richard G. Mann, “Wong, Martin,” glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, 2007: 5, http://www.glbtqarchive.com/arts/wong_m_A.pdf.
- Roy Pérez, “Queer Mediums: The Cultural Politics of Figuration in Latin@ Literature and Performance,” (PhD diss., New York University, 2012), ProQuest (10143916): 47.
- Exhibition history
- “Martin Wong: Paintings for the Hearing Impaired,” Semaphore Gallery, New York, September 8–October 6, 1984
- “Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong,” Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, January 13–February 22, 1998; New Museum, New York, May 28–September 13, 1998
- “Martin Wong: Human Instamatic,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, November 4, 2015–March 13, 2016; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, May 14–August 7, 2016; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, September 20–December 10, 2017
- “Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief,” Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid, November 8, 2022–January 29, 2023; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, February 25–May 14, 2023; Camden Art Centre, London, June 8–September 17, 2023; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, November 3, 2023–April 1, 2024
- Related publications
- Doryun Chong and Cosmin Costinas, Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 122, 124–125.
- Caitlin Burkhart and Julian Myers-Szupinska, eds., My Trip to America by Martin Wong (San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2015), 8, 12–14, 99–100.
- Andrew Russeth, “Big Heat: The Bronx Museum Champions the Brave, Unflinching Martin Wong,” ARTnews, November 6, 2015, https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/martin-wong-bronx-museum-review-best-brave-unflinching-5304/.
- Peter Schjeldahl, “City Scenes,” The New Yorker November 16, 2015, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/city-scenes.
- Holland Cotter, “An Urban Visionary with a Hungry Eye,” New York Times, November 20, 2015.
- Ysabelle Cheung, “The Fantastic Observations of Martin Wong,”Hyperallergic, November 23, 2015, https://hyperallergic.com/255667/the-fantastic-observations-of-martin-wong/.
- Antonio Sergio Bessa, ed., Martin Wong: Human Instamatic, exh. cat. (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015), 19, 36, 37–39, 68, 110.
- Ingrid Dudek, “Martin Wong Human Instamatic,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 15, 2015–January 16, 2016, https://brooklynrail.org/2015/12/artseen/martin-wong-human-instamatic.
- Eleanor Heartney, “Street Life,” Art in America 104, no. 2 (February 2016): 78, 80.
- James Cassell, “Martin Wong on the Lower East Side,” The Gay & Lesbian Review/Worldwide, May–June 2016, https://glreview.org/article/martin-wong-on-the-lower-east-side/.
- Ingrid Dudek, “I Am You, You Are Too,” ArtAsiaPacific, no. 98 (May/June 2016): 74–75.
- Nikil Saval, “We Belong,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, April 22, 2018.
- “The Chirimoya Years: Martin Wong in Eureka, California,” Doyle, 2018, https://doyle.com/specialists/angelo-madrigale/stories/chirimoya-years-martin-wong-eureka-california.
- Kita Douglas, “Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing,” (PhD diss., Duke University, 2019), ProQuest (13810175): 184.
- Andrew Strombeck, DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020), 81.
- Tessa Solomon, “The Human Instamatic: Martin Wong’s Visionary Paintings of New York Continue to Intrigue,” ARTnews, June 7, 2021,
- https://www.artnews.com/feature/who-is-martin-wong-why-is-he-important-1234594299/.
- Marci Kwon, “A Secret History of Martin Wong,” in The Present Prospects of Social Art History (New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2021), 113–15.
- Krist Gruijthuijsen and Augustín Pérez Rubio, eds., Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022), 70–71.
- Marci Kwon, “Glittering Visions: Martin Wong and the Queer Counterculture, 1966–78,” in Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, eds., Krist Gruijthuijsen and Augustín Pérez Rubio, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022), 64.
- Sofie Krogh Christensen, “A Cosmos of Codes: The Languages of Martin Wong,” in Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, eds., Krist Gruijthuijsen and Augustín Pérez Rubio, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022), 91.
- Agustín Pérez Rubio, “…it’s not really what you think*: Martin Wong and the Recreation of the Sociopolitical Landscape of Loisaida,” in Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, eds., Krist Gruijthuijsen and Augustín Pérez Rubio, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022), 132, 134.
- Mitch Speed, “Martin Wong’s ‘Malicious Mischief’,” e-flux Criticism, (March 22, 2023). https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/528904/martin-wong-s-malicious-mischief.
- Kristina Foster, “Martin Wong at Berlin’s KW Institute Review—California Psychedelia Meets Asian Mysticism,” Financial Times, May 2, 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/f748ffa0-125b-414c-a8fd-6250b93cc2ba?accessToken=zwAF-ryDuDswkdP3SP-gEltBTNOo_WJQuTzCug.MEUCIERYAppduvtdOBE8BymU1An2QgzhxK_s13l59utFHiR1AiEAy2TVTxvdwmRLZOSau6xxkybH-TpqPBz-tYLIkoVSG3E&sharetype=gift&token=d13b136b-b62a-4595-9378-0dd3ecaa87fe.
- Martin Herbert, “Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief,” Art in America 111, no. 3 (Summer 2023): 135.
- Madeleine Pollard, “The Queer Chinese American Artist Who Captured the Underbelly of 80s NY,” i-D Magazine – VICE, April 12, 2023, https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/k7z8an/martin-wong-artist.
- John Yau, “Martin Wong, the Perennial Outsider, Answers Back,” Art|Basel, June 21, 2023, https://www.artbasel.com/stories/martin-wong-queerness-john-yau?lang=en.
- Joe Lloyd, “Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief,” Studio International, June 28, 2023, https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/martin-wong-malicious-mischief-review-camden-art-centre-london.
- Eddy Frankel, “Martin Wong: ‘Malicious Mischief,’” TimeOut London, May 19, 2023, https://www.timeout.com/london/art/martin-wong-malicious-mischief.
- Dylan Huw, “The Many Lives of Martin Wong,” ArtReview, June 27, 2023, https://artreview.com/martin-wong-malicious-mischief-camden-art-centre-london-review/.
- related publications
- Solomon Adler, “Portrait Martin Wong: Never Quite Together,” Spike Art Magazine 76 (Summer 2023): 92.
- Work series
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- Paintings for the Hearing Impaired
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/hz620ry8859
- Private collection, New York
- Repository
- Digital image held by the Stanford Libraries.
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction:
- Images of Martin Wong’s work presented here can be reproduced for use in research, teaching, and private study only. Any transmission or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from The Martin Wong Foundation, the owners of the rights to these images. For any inquiries, please contact The Martin Wong Foundation at info@ppowgallery.com.
- Copyright:
- Copyright © The Martin Wong Foundation.
- License:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).