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PPOW Gallery

PPOW Gallery
392 Broadway
212-647-1044

About Us:

P·P·O·W was founded by Wendy Olsoff and Penny Pilkington in the first wave of the East-Village Art Scene in New York City in 1983. In 1988 the gallery moved to Soho and in 2002 moved to Chelsea. P·P·O·W maintains a diverse roster of national and international artists. Since its inception, the gallery has remained true to its early vision, showing contemporary work in all media.


Recent News

Exhibition - Kyle Dunn: Night Pictures at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Night Pictures, Kyle Dunn’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. In a new series of highly detailed paintings rendered in acrylic on panel, Dunn collapses the studio, the home, and the…

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Exhibition - Hew Locke: Listening to the Land at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Listening to the Land, Hew Locke’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Locke is known for exploring the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, and the symbols through which…

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Exhibition - Tom Knechtel: Drawn After Life at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Drawn After Life, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Tom Knechtel. Known for his complex allegorical narratives using a repertoire of characters and exploring themes of sexuality, animal…

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Exhibition - Jimmy DeSana: The Dungeon Series, 1978-79 at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Jimmy DeSana: The Dungeon Series, 1978-79, an exhibition showcasing one of the artist’s earliest bodies of work, conceived and executed in close collaboration with the author and dominatrix…

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Exhibition - Shellyne Rodriguez: Third World Mixtapes: The Infrastructure of Feeling at PPOW Gallery

“Didacting!” Shellyne laughs, hard. “My **** is didactic. Baby!” And it is in the way of a fetish: it’s teaching even though you have to figure out what and how to learn and bear weighty consciousness rather than carry…

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Exhibition: Anton van Dalen - Doves: Where They Live and Work at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Doves: Where They Live and Work, Anton van Dalen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Since moving to New York in 1966, and settling in the East Village, van Dalen has served as witness,…

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Exhibition - Adam Putnam: Holes at PPOW Gallery

P·P·O·W is pleased to present Holes, Adam Putnam’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the building up of imagery by means of photography, drawing, sculpture, film, and performance, Adam Putnam continues an…

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