©POP Gallery is an art gallery located at 4160 Woodward Detroit MI 48201

Founded in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1995 by ultra-Boheme rock poster publisher, Rick Manore, in the cloisters of a renovated old church where the impetus originally was to sell rock and roll poster art and graphics, Kustom Kulture and a vintage visual memorabilia. ©POP Gallery was born rather ceremoniously when world-renown Cartoon Surrealist, Robert Williams was chosen for the gallery's debut exhibit, "Grab Yer Ankles, Detroit" and a local media frenzy ensued, instantly embossing the familiar "cpopyright" logo into the Detroit cultural psyche, and soon becoming THE gallery in which to shown or be seen.

Manore saw an unbelievable range of visual talent fermenting in what he would later deem, "The New Munich", and soon local first-timers with names like Niagara, Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey, Tom Thewes, Tristan Eaton, and many more, soon-to-be nationally famous Motor City artists, would find their first sucessful exhibits in the basement of an old church. By 1997, some of America's cutting-edge art and culture journals such as Juxtapoz magazine,"Your Flesh", "Art Alternatives" and "Details" all trumpeted the Gallery and the artists who were emerging from this suburban, "underground-zero" and right into national prominence. By 1999, ©POP and it's stable of artists -Niagara , Glenn Barr, Mark Dancey,and a retro-futurist named, Tom Thewes, Jr., were more than just, "Detroit's best kept secrets". Now, as they were all beginning to experience national prominence vis a vis exhibits in Los Angeles, New York and all points inbetween. Unable to meet the demands of the gallery and the increasing interest in the artists he was promoting, Manore was approached by ©POP stablemate, Tom Thewes, Jr (last of the der Lärm boys), who only 3 years earlier had his third successful ©POP Royal Oak exhibit, and now offered his help in taking the gallery and it's burgeoning roster of artists to a whole new level. Putting his money where his mouth and heart were, Thewes, now ©POP Owner/CEO, renovated a three story former trophy shop, bar and den of iniquity in Detroit's Mid-town Cultural Center, into a world class showplace for art. The newly improved cultural showcase opened to much fanfare and excited expectation with a "Grand Re-Opening" Exhibition entitled , "© Stands For..." which included all of the ©POP regulars plus names like, Mark Ryden , H.R. Giger, Robert Williams, Eric White, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Isabel Samaras and many more. More than just a simple re-location, this new version of ©POP created a cultural domino effect of being the first of what soon became an imperssive "gallery row" on the south end of the Cultural Center, which still continues to grow with more galleries every year. Setting the bar high led to more than 20 exhibits a year for the two-floor gallery with such names as Shag, Shephard Fairey, Bask, Yumiko Kawikawa, Kid Robot, Iggy Pop and some of the most legendary Art openings in the city's history, and helped to build ©POP's mythic status, as patrons came from every continent (except Antarctica) to visit this iconic gallery. As a perennial award-winner from its inception, acknowledged by local publications' year-end "Best Of" lists, ©POP continues to elevate the art bar to lofty heights - for both artists and viewers alike, with an uncompromising and innovative style which aims to carry the rich and risky tradition of showing both the diamonds and the dirt of contemporary art well into the 21st Century.