P·P·O·W is pleased to present Do You Love Me?, a group exhibition featuring work by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Martine Gutierrez, Gerald Lovell, Reba Maybury, Sophia Narrett, and Kyle Dunn.

Bringing together a diverse group of emerging artists working in various media, Do You Love Me? explores contemporary desire by displaying artworks that double as entreaties for connection, intimacy, and external validation within the context of broader societal power structures. Exhibiting artists examine the inherently unbalanced power dynamics between those that ask to be loved and those that have the power to give it.

Do You Love Me? acknowledges a contemporary climate in which interior lives become public, pushing artists to grapple with the fine line between being seen and being exploited; between presenting themselves and giving themselves away.

Martine Gutierrez (b. 1989) received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. She draws from eclectic media, acting as subject, artist and muse. Through performance, photography and film, Gutierrez documents her personal transformations by embodying various imagined personas. Recent solo exhibitions include Martine Gutierrez: True Story at Boston University Art Gallery and WE & THEM & ME at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh in North Carolina. Gutierrez’s work has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Razing, New Museum, New York, NY; 23 Pairs: Considering Compare and Contrast, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; and Fast Forward//Rewind, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA.

Reba Maybury (b. 1990) is an artist, writer, lecturer and political dominatrix. She is the founder of Wet Satin Press and, in 2017, she published her first novella ‘Dining with Humpty Dumpty’. She teaches a program in subversive thinking at Central Saint Martins. Her work has recently been exhibited at Paramount Ranch with Shoot the Lobster (2016); Karma International, Los Angeles (2017) and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (2018) as a part of ‘Putting Out’ which Maybury curated with Taylor Trabulus, Arcadia Missa, London (2018), NADA Miami with Arcadia Missa (2018), Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2019) and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2019). She has performed readings at Cleopatra’s, New York; Bridget Donahue, New York; Donna Huanca’s Studio, Berlin; The Community, Paris; Schloss, Oslo; Royal College of Art, London, White Columns, New York. She is represented by Arcadia Missa and lives and works in London.

Kyle Dunn (b. 1990) defies categorical restraint, disregarding any sole representational technique in favor of his own unique approach. Blurring the lines between sculpture and painting, Dunn’s reliefs drip with a liquid eroticism that celebrates an often-repressed male sensuality and softness. In his Artforum review of Dunn’s recent solo show, Always, at Thierry Goldberg, Alex Jovanovich wrote “Vu-Dunn’s unequivocally queer work is slyly revolutionary—a raised fist that doesn’t shy away from the power of a gentle caress.” His work has been included in exhibitions at Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; Nationale, Portland, OR; Part 2 Gallery; Oakland, CA; and Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, among others. He received a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He lives and works in Queens, NY.