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P·P·O·W is pleased to present Stardust, an exhibition of historic work by Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). This presentation marks the gallery’s first show of Pardo’s work, and the artist’s first exhibition in New York in more than fifteen years. Bringing together works that span the artist’s career—from his early portraits investigating gender expression and sense of self, to his later series Mother and i in Technicolor and Stardust—the drawings and paintings on view evince a singular style that refigures glamor, gaudiness, and femininity as markers of strength, resilience, and agency.
Anchoring the exhibition is a selection of Pardo’s astonishingly intricate drawings from his Stardust series, 2003-2012. Due to his declining health in the early aughts, Pardo shifted his practice away from painting to focus on highly layered, glittering drawings of stylized female figures, which, in the artist’s words, “has become my life’s wo…
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P·P·O·W is pleased to present Stardust, an exhibition of historic work by Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). This presentation marks the gallery’s first show of Pardo’s work, and the artist’s first exhibition in New York in more than fifteen years. Bringing together works that span the artist’s career—from his early portraits investigating gender expression and sense of self, to his later series Mother and i in Technicolor and Stardust—the drawings and paintings on view evince a singular style that refigures glamor, gaudiness, and femininity as markers of strength, resilience, and agency.
Anchoring the exhibition is a selection of Pardo’s astonishingly intricate drawings from his Stardust series, 2003-2012. Due to his declining health in the early aughts, Pardo shifted his practice away from painting to focus on highly layered, glittering drawings of stylized female figures, which, in the artist’s words, “has become my life’s wo…
