Pexcho
Everything you need to know, in short . . .
Pexcho is currently
preparing for the following exhibitions:
July 07, 2006 (Opening)
Solo Show at Saints & Sinners Baltimore featuring the theme "Freaks That Made America"
July 15, 2006 (Opening)
Solo Show at Made In Metal Gallery Baltimore featuring the theme "Pugilism in Baltimore"
July 18, 2006 (Opening)
Group Show at the Washington DC Economic Partnership Building featuring the theme "Art as an Economic Incubator"
Ongoing
'Woodcut Prints' A collection of three of Pexcho's new Woodcut Prints with a Mother Goose Theme are now available through Made in Metal Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland
Pexcho also has paintings and woodcuts available at 2 Hot Chicks in Baltimore, Maryland -- 820 W. 36th Street -- 410.235.1888
Peter Excho currently sells paintings, drawings and woodcut prints through individual studio visits... He has initiated a new Trojan horse approach to art marketing, self described as "delivery service art". Pexcho's works depict the unpretentious philosophy that men are "basically complete pieces of shit", an interpretation formed from his personal experience listening to the echoes of the worlds' milieu, for example:
"Hey, have you seen so and so's ass?"
"What I would give to seat that on my face . . ." and,
"Godamb, did you sea those fuckin' tits? Shit those are nice . . ."
These are
men's reviews, not as printed in magazines, but as daily
inflicted upon the listening ear, on the street and in the bar.
"It is the evidence I hear everyday that men are all shit
and more shit, with some ass scratching and ball pulling
besides." Pexcho's paintings abstractly reflect, through
visual imagery, the contemporary male denigration of women still
persisting in ancient forms, with backgrounds underscored, hazy
and unclear, and all with 'non-essential feminine details'
(hands/faces/feet) obliterated, in the effort to illustrate what
men notice.
Pexcho paints
each day full time, and that is all he does...
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The Past (Biography):
Peter Excho
was born 25th July, 1966 in Buffalo, NY. Despite the absence of
professional or scholastic guidance or encouragement, Pexcho
evinced a more than typical child-like pursuit of painting in any
media-- charcoal, acrylics, colored pencils, pen and inks and
during his childhood, his sister's crayons.
He early acknowledged his artistic interest, exhibiting classic
signs of the sociopath artistic auto-didactic: regularly kicking
his younger sister out of her own room to occupy the space,
citing as reason the better quality of lighting. Once caught
forging US currency in immaculate detail, "Just to see if I
could". Pexcho was regularly punished, berated and chided
into docile submission...
He moved with his family to Florida in 1985, where he met and
later married his first wife. Pexcho joined the USAF October of
1986 at the age of 20, relocated to Cheyenne, Wyoming and
eschewed all painting efforts for a two-year period, during which
time his first child, a son was born.
After receiving an honorary discharge from the Air Force in 1988,
Pexcho moved to San Antonio, Texas with his wife and son, only
later to be separated from his first family, moving alone to Los
Angeles, California. Here Pexcho found himself returning to
painting and inner questionings, exploring his purpose in life
and seeking art instruction through local colleges, only to find
the patronage offered "unstimulating"...
Pexcho experimented in various approaches to sculpture i.e. free
form, plaster, paper mache' and wood; then worked in
photography--ultimately deciding that the media of paint on
canvas felt the most natural to his mind's expressing the ideas
of his burdened soul. Disenfranchised by existence in Southern
California, and starving under the reality of dedicating his life
to "art and nothing else", Pexcho was rescued by his
sister Lynn and transplanted to Baton Rouge, Louisiana via
Richmond, Virginia in late 1992, where he painted for five years
uninterrupted, building a body of work and privately forging into
realization an historic epiphany to be revealed years later in
the showing of 40 Days and 40 Knights...
Pexcho met his "Soul mate and until forever" Tonya in
1993 and continued with his quest and obsessive pursuit of
artistic creation; while also teaching basic art principles to
young artists from 1995 thru 1998 in his own studio and later in
his first art gallery. Burn/5150 ink (est. 1997) was opened in
Baton Rouge, with Pexcho incorporating the discipline of Body Art
with living, human skin acting as another, more delicate canvas
amongst the other conventionally accepted classifications; as
well as all other media encompassed by the arbitrable term
"Art". The Burn Gallery was later relocated to downtown
Baton Rouge, including the addition of Insomkneeacks, a coffee
shop; all intended to serve as an omni-potentiality venue for the
expression of music, dance, theatre, written prose, id. est.,
culturally 'the works'--a joint business uniting the efforts of
his sister, Tonya and their many friends and supporters from the
local community....
The Exchos brought their beautiful baby girl, Rahnah Mette Sophie
Gaad into the world in 1998, then closed up shop in Baton Rouge
and moved to the rumoured "more culturally hospitable
atmosphere" of Washington DC. After five years of realizing
that DC is more about politics than the true and honest
expression of one's soul and desires, The Exchos purchased a
three story house in Baltimore, Maryland...
Jaq Emerson Nathaniel Bell Excho came to being under a different name on January 24, 2003...The child of Tonya's niece, Jaq was immediately brought into the Excho family; loved, and being only days old, had his first Train ride from Louisiana to Baltimore, where he was adopted and given his three middle names to honor Peter's beloved mentor, Emerson Bell, who sadly passed on April 13th of 2006...
The Excho Clan
still resides in "Charm City", where Pexcho continues
to forge new realizations in art, continually inspired by the
love and support of his wife Tonya, daughter Rahnah and son, Jaq.
To
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Accomplishments/Exhibitions
:
2005
September 15, 2005 (Opening)
Solo Show at Anatomy Gallery in Manhattan featuring the theme "Alice in Wonderland"
September 08, 2005 (Opening)
One Night Group Show at Niagara Gallery in Manhattan
September 02, 2005 (Opening)
'Rods and Femmes' Solo Show at Saints and Sinners Gallery in Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland
August 13, 2005 (Opening)
'Hot Days of Summer' Group Show at 2 Hot Chicks in Baltimore, Maryland
July 09, 2005 (Opening)
'Urban Heroes and Heroines' Group Show at The Stacy Stewart Smith Gallery in Brooklyn, New York
May 21, 2005
(Opening)
Exhibition
dates : May 21-22, May 28-29, June 04-05 & June 11-12
'Bad Boys: Pimps, Players, Politicians, Priests' Group Show at The Stacy Stewart Smith Gallery in Brooklyn, New York
Below are the two paintings
Pexcho created for this show...
March 04, 2005
"Unknown Masters", A One Night Group Show at the Silver Whale Gallery in New York City
February 11-14
'The Dirty Show 6' at the Tangent Gallery in Detroit Michigan; sponsored by Juxtapoz magazine.
February 5
'Good Love, Bad Love'
Group Show at Made In Metal Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland
2004
October, 2004 - Group show at Charm City Art Space inn Baltimore City - 'GOJIRA', celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Movie Monster Godzilla.
2003
"Sex Monster"
debuts
January 23 - March 29, 2003 San Francisco
2002
Fifth Solo Show at Steven
Carter Studios (25 percent sold) Washington, DC
DC/AC Gallery Group Show Washington, DC
2001
January, 2001 - 'Printmakers Only' Fraiser Gallery Group Show Washington, DC
Received Small Projects Program Grant from NEA and The DC Commission of the Arts
M.O.C.A, Group show DC
2000
M.O.C.A. Group show DC
October 27 - November 10, 2000 - 'Liquid Nudes', Fourth Solo Show at Micro Gallery & Rooftop Washington, DC
December, 2000 - Group Show Platinum Club Washington, DC
August 1999
Group Show--one of twenty-three artists out of a field of 300 international entries selected to show at the Fraiser Gallery in Georgetown (Pexcho: "Did not sell a good-godamb thing") .
February 1999
group show in Washington DC at the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgetown; all oil paintings (ditto the above remark).
February 1998
'Sex Circles and Swirls' opening for the month of love, Third Solo Show; acrylics, oils (90 percent sold).
October 31st 1997
Second Solo Show; 147 images; acrylics, oils, and pen and ink, supporting the theme '40 Days and 40 Knights' (90 percent sold).
March 1997
First Solo
Show including 25 images; acrylics and oils, accrued from as
early as 1988.
Peter Excho
has been published in written articles in Baton Rouge's 'The
Advocate', 'The New Orleans Art News', and a local DC mag 'Trade
Art', the latter in two full page articles.
(The Future?)
Ever forward in art,
until "Someone hears me or notices my work, or until I fill
my new three-story Mansion with this shit . . ."
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