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Charlie Ahearn

Portrait of Martin Wong

  • Documentary
RELEASE

1998-02-12

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

18 min

Description

Martin painted the LES ghetto with the most enigmatic realism of bricks to be seen. In 1992 Martin Wong invited Charlie Ahearn up to his Ridge St apartment as he began his autobiographical Chinatown series reflecting his youth in San Francisco and later New York. After he was diagnosed HIV he returned to SF where he later passed away in 1999.