ABOUT THE WORK

Gene Paul Martin’s work is steeped in pop culture and off kilter yearnings. Pop Art erupted on the New York scene in 1962, when Claes Oldenburg , George Segal, Mariso land self promoted extraordinaire Andy Warhol all held exhibitions on swank uptown galleries. So when artists half a world away in the Philippines, a society dramatically diferent from the United States, adopt this mode of expression, it is astonishing. Fast forward to 2019, and Gebe Paul Martin’s art is acknowledged for being among the new vulgarians in the Manila art scene, but somehow their graphic depictions of the quotidian and the banal captured popular tastes, and why not? Their works were colorful; their subject matter was easily understood.