Pow Martinez at The Junkart Gallery Manila

Explore the darkly humorous world of Pow Martinez at The Junkart Gallery Manila. Discover expressionistic paintings blending bold colors with mutant-like characters, offering a satirical portrait of societal overconsumption.

About the Artist

Born in Manila in 1983, Martinez's art combines everyday life with pop culture, creating comically distorted depictions of American influence in the Philippines, social media culture, and the art market. His works, exhibited globally and recognized with the Ateneo Art Award, present a beautiful nightmare, drawing inspiration from YouTube feeds and blending modern symbols with antiquated imagery.

Martinez's Unique Style

Experience Martinez's unique style, featuring large-scale narrative paintings and intimate portraits that critique the normalization of violence and exploitation through humor and horror. Dive into a dystopian atmosphere filled with mutant-like figures, reflecting a disorienting clash of time and space. Don't miss the chance to see how Martinez uses painting as a tool to understand the world, focusing on the American Medieval with elements of European medieval art in a contemporary style.

Featured Works

The Junkart Gallery Manila showcases Martinez's canvases that blend bold colors and demonic styles to create a beautiful nightmare. See works such as ZOOM MEETING (2022) depicting a figure on a video call with a God-like character, while EVOLUTIONARY FLASH IN THE PAN (2025) portrays a giant head in space eating the world. HEAD OF STATE (2024) offers a classical scene of peasants preparing the decapitated head of a king.

Visit The Junkart Gallery Manila

Experience the fusion of art and social commentary at The Junkart Gallery Manila, where Martinez's unique vision comes to life.