Joey Mars
Press & Portfolio
A growing portfolio of articles, interviews, exhibitions, public artworks and archival projects documenting the expanding world of Joey Mars.
The Interview
Joey Mars: The Motherlode Interview
Joey Mars and Chuck White retrace the Boston and Worcester underground, Green Street Station, Bunratty’s, the Priviet Series, Pearl Jam, artist collectives, alligators and the strange road into Mars World.
Biography
Enter the World of Joey Mars
From Worcester and Wilbraham to Boston rock posters, the Grateful Dead, Provincetown, Shop Therapy, Camp Provincetown’s portals and Mars Fest.
Motherlode Archive
Cash Money Aliens
A sprawling series combining comic-strip characters, political observation, dialogue and poetry into a surreal chronicle of the Trump era.
Motherlode Archive
The Best of Bug Brain Sushi
Twenty selections from the daily art adventure Joey Mars transmitted through Motherlode.TV during 2015.
Illustrated Series
UFO Ambulance
An eleven-part illustrated transmission populated by ambulances, extraterrestrials and the interplanetary emergencies of Mars World.
Festival
Mars Fest
Joey’s evolving celebration of visual art, fashion, music, performance, vintage culture and the surrounding creative community.
Exhibitions & Public Art
Ronny’s Angels — Shop Therapy
Joey Mars transformed the exterior of the former Star Theater at 286 Commercial Street in Provincetown with a thirty-three-foot-wide digital mural populated by politically charged Cash Money Aliens. Created for Shop Therapy proprietor Ronny Hazel, the installation turned the building itself into a transmission from Mars World.
Facial Recognition — Woodman/Shimko Gallery
In 2018, Mars returned to his painting roots with Facial Recognition at Provincetown’s Woodman/Shimko Gallery. The exhibition carried the hard-edged digital collage of Cash Money Aliens onto canvas through wet-on-wet painting, drawing, stencils and aerosol techniques Mars described as “graffuturism.”
The Portals — Missing Time
In 2026, Joey Mars built the portals for Camp Provincetown’s Missing Time Outsiders Festival. Constructed from repurposed telephone booths, the public artworks became physical gateways connecting the festival’s exhibitions, performances, stories and locations.
From the Press Archive
Mars World Trifecta
2018 press release: A new mural, a gallery exhibition and Cash Money Aliens approaching its five-hundredth installment. The original release documented the Shop Therapy installation, the opening of Facial Recognition and Joey Mars’s emergence from the underground into full public view.
The complete historical press release will be added to the Joey Mars archive.
Press Contact
For Joey Mars inquiries: joeymars5000@gmail.com
For Motherlode.TV: chuck@motherlode.tv