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Fahamu Pecou

January 01, 1970

Fahamu Pecou (born June 25, 1975) is an American painter and scholar. He is known for producing works that combine aspects of Fine art and Hip-hop.[1][2][3][4] Most of his works engage representations of black masculinity and identity.[5][6][7]

Fahamu Pecou
BornJune 25, 1975
Brooklyn, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAtlanta College of Art
Known forVisual artist
Notable workPursuit of Happiness, Imagining New Worlds, Grav•i•ty, I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings and Talking Drum.
StylePainting, Canvas

Early life and education edit

Pecou was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1975 to Alphonso Pecou and Betty Ann Ridges. His father's extended family had moved from Panama to Brooklyn, and his mother had moved with her brother from Hartsville, South Carolina. The couple met when she moved into an apartment in the brownstone that the Pecou family owned. Prior to Pecou's birth, Alphonso Pecou enlisted in the United Negro Improvement Association, and moved his family to Virgin Gorda before returning to Brooklyn.[8]

When Pecou was four years old, his father murdered his mother after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and being repeatedly institutionalized. He and his siblings were sent to live with a relative in Hartsville, South Carolina, where he produced comic strips centered around the superhero, "Black Man."

Pecou graduated with a B.F.A in Painting and Digital Media from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997. He received his M.A. from Emory University's Institute of Liberal Arts in 2017 and his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2018.[9]

Career edit

 
The Return, 2016

Pecou began his career as a graphic designer, producing materials for nightclubs, restaurants, and politicians as well as hip hop artists and music labels. While working with rap artists, Pecou began to consider the marketing strategies used in hip hop and applied those strategies to his own practice. His early paintings juxtaposed a street-savvy and in-your-face hip hop bravado with the more conservative art world. More recently, his paintings focus on contemporary representations of black masculinity and identity.[10][11]

Pecou uses acrylic paint on canvas, video, music and performance art and academic writings to engage the complexities and convergences of hip-hop and black masculinity. His works display the spirit of modern-day Black America and also depict the history and culture of the African diaspora.[12][13] They are known to be bold, bright and confrontational with inherent political undertone.[14][15][16][17]

Notable series within Pecou's body of work include Pursuit of Happiness (2013), Imagining New Worlds (2015), Grav•i•ty (2014), I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings (2015) and Talking Drum (2016).[12][18][19][20] Pecou's works are featured in major national and international galleries, museums and collections such as: the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture,[14][21] the High Museum of Art,[22][23][24] Société Générale (Paris),[25] Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University,[26][27] Paul R. Jones Collection,[28] Clark Atlanta University Art Collection,[29] Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia,[7] and several others both in the private and public sectors.[30][31][32]

Pecou engages in regular solo and group art exhibition across the globe.[33] He also holds public lectures and speaking engagements at colleges and museums across the US.[34] In addition to his own work, Pecou has curated notable exhibitions, including RiTES at the Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University.[34] In 2015, Pecou was selected by the City of Atlanta's Office of Cultural Affairs to curate ELEVATE Atlanta; the city’s annual public arts festival.[3]

Starting in 2015, Pecou has also collaborated with the organizations WonderRoot, MARTA, Fulton County Arts and Culture, and the TransFormation Alliance to revitalize select MARTA stations by painting murals.[35] The stations that will participate in this En Route program include the King Memorial, Oakland City, Hamilton E. Holmes, and Ashby stations.[36] The goal of the project is to make the stations more inviting and encourage a sense of community.[35] The project received $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.[37] So far, murals by Pecou have been painted at the King Memorial Station, the Ashby Station, and the Oakland City Station.[37][38][39]

On Saturday, September 8, 2018, Pecou's studio was destroyed in a fire while he was traveling abroad.[40]

Awards edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Rebecca, Dimling Cochran (26 April 2010). "Fahamu Pecou". Arts in America Magazine. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  2. ^ POLOGOD (25 November 2015). "Contemporary Artist Fahamu Pecou Brings The Blackness To Art Basel". THE SOURCE MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  3. ^ a b Yvette, Caslin (15 September 2015). "Artists Fahamu Pecou, Organized Noize team for Elevate, 'Forever I Love Atlanta'". rollingout.com. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  4. ^ Rodney, Carmichael (12 November 2013). "Fahamu Pecou to guest edit Art Papers". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  5. ^ Becca, Thomas (5 March 2015). . Rooms Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  6. ^ Muriel, Vega. "MARTA recruits WonderRoot, Fahamu Pecou for En Route program". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  7. ^ a b Kimber, Williams (17 February 2015). "Artist and scholar: Fahamu Pecou challenges concepts of black masculinity". EMORY News Center. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  8. ^ Bentley, Rosalind (July 28, 2013). "Art of Survival". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved July 24, 2022.
  9. ^ . Fahamu Pecou. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
  10. ^ . Morehouse College. 7 January 2016. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  11. ^ Mack, Tom (27 April 2016). . free-times.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  12. ^ a b Jacinta, Howard (26 January 2016). "'Talking Drum' puts social justice on blast". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  13. ^ Kate, Sweeney (20 August 2015). "MARTA Murals Are First Stop 'En Route' To Neighborhood Change". news.wabe.org. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  14. ^ a b Solé, Aurochs (25 September 2015). "Enter the Art of Fahamu Pecou". Ebony. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  15. ^ Laura, Hutson (28 August 2014). . NASHVILLE SCENE. Archived from the original on 1 September 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  16. ^ Dylan, Fagan (25 February 2014). "StoryCorps: Fahamu Pecou". news.wabe.org. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  17. ^ . beatrixmoss.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  18. ^ "Fahamu Pecou". Widewalls Magazine. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  19. ^ Sara, Khaled. . Threshold Magazine. Archived from the original on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  20. ^ Faith, McClure (30 December 2014). "Review: Fahamu Pecou soars in striking, smart, timely "Grav•i•ty," at MOCA GA". artsatl.com. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  21. ^ Kimber, Williams (14 May 2015). "Emory doctoral student's painting acquired by new Smithsonian museum". EMORY News Center. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  22. ^ Howard, Pousner (22 February 2015). . ajc.com. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  23. ^ Gavin, Godfrey (14 October 2014). "Solo exhibitions from Fahamu Pecou and José Parlá coming to the High". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  24. ^ Rodney, Carmichael (24 May 2013). "Fahamu Pecou deconstructs 'All Dat Glitters' on the canvas and the mic (and the iPhone)". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  25. ^ Collin (22 July 2015). "En Route: Art installations coming to MARTA transit stations". Atlanta Intown Paper. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  26. ^ Wendy, Livingston (28 December 2012). "Nasher Focuses on Artists of African Descent". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  27. ^ Samuel, Feldblum. "Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  28. ^ Samuel (15 January 2015). . UA News. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  29. ^ "Fahamu Pecou - Do Or Die: Affect, Ritual, And Resistance". halsey.cofc.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  30. ^ Howard, Pousner (28 July 2015). . ajc.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  31. ^ Kiplyn, Primus (10 October 2015). "Fahamu Pecou, Rico Wade Join Kiplyn Primus On The Local Take". wclk.com. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  32. ^ Rodney, Carmichael. "Fahamu Pecou and José Parlá in a parallel universe". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  33. ^ Nicole, Smythe Johnson (15 February 2013). "The Reservations of Blackness and the Politics of Medium- Interrogating Fahamu Pecou". arcthemagazine.com. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  34. ^ a b Gavin, Godfrey (25 August 2016). "Fahamu Pecou talks curating Elevate and MARTA". CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  35. ^ a b "MARTA stations to feature mural artwork". myajc. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  36. ^ "MARTA recruits WonderRoot, Fahamu Pecou for En Route program | Atlanta Creative Loafing". Atlanta Creative Loafing. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  37. ^ a b "En Route - WonderRoot". WonderRoot. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  38. ^ "MARTA". www.itsmarta.com. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  39. ^ . leadership.saportareport.com. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  40. ^ "Fire claims studio of Atlanta artist and Emory alum Fahamu Pecou". news.emory.edu. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
  41. ^ a b c "Fahamu Pecou". widewalls. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  42. ^ a b c "Fahamu Pecou". artspace.com. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  43. ^ 20 years of Artists-In-Residence McColl Center
  44. ^ "Fahamu Pecou". Conduit Gallery. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  45. ^ Foundation, Joan Mitchell. "Announcing the 2016 Painters & Sculptors Grant Recipients". joanmitchellfoundation.org. Retrieved 2018-10-03.

External links edit

  • Official website

January 01, 1970
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This article contains content that is written like an advertisement Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view August 2020 Learn how and when to remove this message Fahamu Pecou born June 25 1975 is an American painter and scholar He is known for producing works that combine aspects of Fine art and Hip hop 1 2 3 4 Most of his works engage representations of black masculinity and identity 5 6 7 Fahamu PecouBornJune 25 1975Brooklyn New YorkNationalityAmericanAlma materAtlanta College of ArtKnown forVisual artistNotable workPursuit of Happiness Imagining New Worlds Grav i ty I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings and Talking Drum StylePainting Canvas Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and education editPecou was born in Brooklyn New York in 1975 to Alphonso Pecou and Betty Ann Ridges His father s extended family had moved from Panama to Brooklyn and his mother had moved with her brother from Hartsville South Carolina The couple met when she moved into an apartment in the brownstone that the Pecou family owned Prior to Pecou s birth Alphonso Pecou enlisted in the United Negro Improvement Association and moved his family to Virgin Gorda before returning to Brooklyn 8 When Pecou was four years old his father murdered his mother after being diagnosed with schizophrenia and being repeatedly institutionalized He and his siblings were sent to live with a relative in Hartsville South Carolina where he produced comic strips centered around the superhero Black Man Pecou graduated with a B F A in Painting and Digital Media from the Atlanta College of Art in 1997 He received his M A from Emory University s Institute of Liberal Arts in 2017 and his Ph D from Emory University in 2018 9 Career edit nbsp The Return 2016 Pecou began his career as a graphic designer producing materials for nightclubs restaurants and politicians as well as hip hop artists and music labels While working with rap artists Pecou began to consider the marketing strategies used in hip hop and applied those strategies to his own practice His early paintings juxtaposed a street savvy and in your face hip hop bravado with the more conservative art world More recently his paintings focus on contemporary representations of black masculinity and identity 10 11 Pecou uses acrylic paint on canvas video music and performance art and academic writings to engage the complexities and convergences of hip hop and black masculinity His works display the spirit of modern day Black America and also depict the history and culture of the African diaspora 12 13 They are known to be bold bright and confrontational with inherent political undertone 14 15 16 17 Notable series within Pecou s body of work include Pursuit of Happiness 2013 Imagining New Worlds 2015 Grav i ty 2014 I Know Why the Caged Bird Blings 2015 and Talking Drum 2016 12 18 19 20 Pecou s works are featured in major national and international galleries museums and collections such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture 14 21 the High Museum of Art 22 23 24 Societe Generale Paris 25 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 26 27 Paul R Jones Collection 28 Clark Atlanta University Art Collection 29 Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia 7 and several others both in the private and public sectors 30 31 32 Pecou engages in regular solo and group art exhibition across the globe 33 He also holds public lectures and speaking engagements at colleges and museums across the US 34 In addition to his own work Pecou has curated notable exhibitions including RiTES at the Zuckerman Museum at Kennesaw State University 34 In 2015 Pecou was selected by the City of Atlanta s Office of Cultural Affairs to curate ELEVATE Atlanta the city s annual public arts festival 3 Starting in 2015 Pecou has also collaborated with the organizations WonderRoot MARTA Fulton County Arts and Culture and the TransFormation Alliance to revitalize select MARTA stations by painting murals 35 The stations that will participate in this En Route program include the King Memorial Oakland City Hamilton E Holmes and Ashby stations 36 The goal of the project is to make the stations more inviting and encourage a sense of community 35 The project received 50 000 from the National Endowment for the Arts 37 So far murals by Pecou have been painted at the King Memorial Station the Ashby Station and the Oakland City Station 37 38 39 On Saturday September 8 2018 Pecou s studio was destroyed in a fire while he was traveling abroad 40 Awards editCaversham Fellowship Atlanta GA 2008 41 Working Artist Fellowship Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia 2013 2014 42 Artadia Award Atlanta GA 2009 42 Artist in Residence at McColl Center for Art Innovation in Charlotte North Carolina 2010 43 Emerging Artist Award NBAF Impressions 2011 42 West Collects Prize West Collection 2012 41 Nellie Mae Rowe Fellowship Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences 2013 44 Robert A Paul Award Emory University 2015 41 Painters and Sculptors Award Joan Mitchell Foundation 2016 45 See also editFine art Virtual art The Art of Painting Art Papers Jose Parla Museum of Contemporary Art of GeorgiaReferences edit Rebecca Dimling Cochran 26 April 2010 Fahamu Pecou Arts in America Magazine Retrieved 17 May 2016 POLOGOD 25 November 2015 Contemporary Artist Fahamu Pecou Brings The Blackness To Art Basel THE SOURCE MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b Yvette Caslin 15 September 2015 Artists Fahamu Pecou Organized Noize team for Elevate Forever I Love Atlanta rollingout com Retrieved 17 May 2016 Rodney Carmichael 12 November 2013 Fahamu Pecou to guest edit Art Papers CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 Becca Thomas 5 March 2015 Fahamu Pecou Challenging Masculinity in the Media Rooms Magazine Archived from the original on 22 August 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Muriel Vega MARTA recruits WonderRoot Fahamu Pecou for En Route program CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b Kimber Williams 17 February 2015 Artist and scholar Fahamu Pecou challenges concepts of black masculinity EMORY News Center Retrieved 17 May 2016 Bentley Rosalind July 28 2013 Art of Survival The Atlanta Journal Constitution Retrieved July 24 2022 Fahamu Pecou CV Fahamu Pecou Archived from the original on 2018 10 03 Retrieved 2018 10 02 Morehouse College To Host Artist Talk With Fahamu Pecou Morehouse College 7 January 2016 Archived from the original on 12 April 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Mack Tom 27 April 2016 In REMIX Exhibition African American Artists Offer Powerful Tweaks to Familiar Themes free times com Archived from the original on 2 May 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b Jacinta Howard 26 January 2016 Talking Drum puts social justice on blast CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 Kate Sweeney 20 August 2015 MARTA Murals Are First Stop En Route To Neighborhood Change news wabe org Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b Sole Aurochs 25 September 2015 Enter the Art of Fahamu Pecou Ebony Retrieved 17 May 2016 Laura Hutson 28 August 2014 An exhibit of paintings by Fahamu Pecou is Culture Fest s crowning jewel NASHVILLE SCENE Archived from the original on 1 September 2014 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Dylan Fagan 25 February 2014 StoryCorps Fahamu Pecou news wabe org Retrieved 17 May 2016 The 13th Floor Lounge Podcast Launches With Visual Artist Fahamu Pecou beatrixmoss com Archived from the original on 17 April 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Fahamu Pecou Widewalls Magazine Retrieved 17 May 2016 Sara Khaled Moving Weighted Threshold Magazine Archived from the original on 23 June 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Faith McClure 30 December 2014 Review Fahamu Pecou soars in striking smart timely Grav i ty at MOCA GA artsatl com Retrieved 17 May 2016 Kimber Williams 14 May 2015 Emory doctoral student s painting acquired by new Smithsonian museum EMORY News Center Retrieved 17 May 2016 Howard Pousner 22 February 2015 High Museum exhibit a dream come true for Fahamu Pecou museum acquires four works at Collectors Evening ajc com Archived from the original on 24 June 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Gavin Godfrey 14 October 2014 Solo exhibitions from Fahamu Pecou and Jose Parla coming to the High CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 Rodney Carmichael 24 May 2013 Fahamu Pecou deconstructs All Dat Glitters on the canvas and the mic and the iPhone CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 Collin 22 July 2015 En Route Art installations coming to MARTA transit stations Atlanta Intown Paper Retrieved 17 May 2016 Wendy Livingston 28 December 2012 Nasher Focuses on Artists of African Descent today duke edu Retrieved 17 May 2016 Samuel Feldblum Reality of My Surroundings The Contemporary Collection The Brooklyn Rail Retrieved 17 May 2016 Samuel 15 January 2015 UA s Jones Gallery to Display Newly Acquired Works UA News Archived from the original on 24 June 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Fahamu Pecou Do Or Die Affect Ritual And Resistance halsey cofc edu Retrieved 17 May 2016 Howard Pousner 28 July 2015 Visual notes Fahamu Pecou art coming to MARTA Poem 88 presents landscapes ajc com Archived from the original on 25 May 2016 Retrieved 17 May 2016 Kiplyn Primus 10 October 2015 Fahamu Pecou Rico Wade Join Kiplyn Primus On The Local Take wclk com Retrieved 17 May 2016 Rodney Carmichael Fahamu Pecou and Jose Parla in a parallel universe CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 Nicole Smythe Johnson 15 February 2013 The Reservations of Blackness and the Politics of Medium Interrogating Fahamu Pecou arcthemagazine com Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b Gavin Godfrey 25 August 2016 Fahamu Pecou talks curating Elevate and MARTA CREATIVE LOAFING MAGAZINE Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b MARTA stations to feature mural artwork myajc Retrieved 2018 10 03 MARTA recruits WonderRoot Fahamu Pecou for En Route program Atlanta Creative Loafing Atlanta Creative Loafing Retrieved 2018 10 03 a b En Route WonderRoot WonderRoot Retrieved 2018 10 03 MARTA www itsmarta com Retrieved 2018 10 03 MARTA S ARTBOUND PROGRAM COMMISSIONS MURALS IN FOUR RAIL STATIONS MARTA leadership saportareport com Archived from the original on 2018 10 03 Retrieved 2018 10 03 Fire claims studio of Atlanta artist and Emory alum Fahamu Pecou news emory edu 2018 09 13 Retrieved 2018 10 03 a b c Fahamu Pecou widewalls Retrieved 17 May 2016 a b c Fahamu Pecou artspace com Retrieved 17 May 2016 20 years of Artists In Residence McColl Center Fahamu Pecou Conduit Gallery Retrieved 17 May 2016 Foundation Joan Mitchell Announcing the 2016 Painters amp Sculptors Grant Recipients joanmitchellfoundation org Retrieved 2018 10 03 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fahamu Pecou amp oldid 1216273916, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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