Paul Ecke

PAUL ECKE

From KPSP: "Southern California artist Paul Ecke usually expresses his dreams and deepest feelings through painting. However, he instead turned to the written word to tell the full tale of his challenges, struggles and victories through a complicated life. That’s because Ecke believes he doesn’t just have an interesting story to tell, but a message for others to follow their truth and aspirations.

"There was a lot of adversity in my childhood, foster care, and living in that and going through that, I had to become a little creative," Ecke said. "And so I used my imagination and it afforded me to really use it and go into the arts to to become an artist."

Paul Ecke is a mid-career painter of contemporary non-figurative and figurative works on canvas and panel. His works are an amalgam of color, texture and movement achieved through application of oil and acrylic paints to canvas, all applied by brush, hand and even trowel. The results are magnificent, colorful, thought and emotion provoking images that convey the inner strength, conviction and complexity of the artist.

Warriors with Messengers

Paul Ecke's recent exhibition at HOHMANN showed a different side of the renown painter. These life-size sculptures were recently exhibited at the Centro Cultural Tijuana (CECUT), a museum with more than a million visitors a year.

Selected works from this exhibition are available for viewing at the gallery by appointment with 24 hours notice.

Meet the artist behind the canvas, Paul Ecke

In conversation with artist Paul Ecke

ARTIST STATEMENT

"In reflection upon my career, I had the opportunity and many hours to contemplate my art. I understand now, more than ever the importance of making art and that it is certainly a gift. Art in its truest form is like story telling … it’s creating a sense of engagement or dialog with the viewer. I have combined luminous color, hand written notions, hieroglyphic symbols and everyday objects. In this complex process of incorporating numerous layers of under painting in combination with screening and newsprint, I have created a personal notepad or diary of sorts. The viewer must not only observe the work but read them as well.

These paintings are intended to appear graphically simple, but delivering a considerable “emotional punch” with the complex depth of the messages with-in them. As an artist, primarily of the abstract, I feel I have the freedom to explore and play with artistic elements from other genres."

-Paul Ecke

Boy Dreamer

Despite--or perhaps because of--the emotional angst, complicated sexual identity issues, and deep loss he experiences, Paul cultivates a profound gift of creative genius. Vibrant with candor and resonant with details of coming of age in '60s and '70s California, as well as of bravely thriving for a decade with cancer, Boy Dreamer is a moving and ultimately triumphant story of a man who discovers his truth and courageously lives it, in a life brimming with love, art, gratitude, and beauty.

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BIOGRAPHY

Education

1976	Graduated California State University, Fullerton: Bachelor of Arts Degree
1977	Graduated California State University, Fullerton: Teaching Credential
	Class works at USD, La Jolla
1977-1984	Taught Art in Orange County, CA Public Schools
1985	Commenced Full Time Painting Career
1990 & 1995	Class work at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
2001	Class work at UCLA, Paintings and Drawings Department

Periodicals

2005	Cover, Gallery Guide, West Coast, April Issue
	Cover, Gallery Guide, National International Collectors Edition, May Issue
2006	5 Page Feature Story, “Paul Ecke in Laguna”, Space Magazine, April Issue
2007	Editorial, LUXE Magazine, Fall Issue
	Desert Living Magazine
	California Homes and Gardens, Fall
	Space Magazine, October
2008	Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot, October 31-November 6,
	California Homes, December
2009	The Magazine, Los Angeles, April
2010	Artweek.LA, “Paul Ecke: The Human Canvas”, November
2018	California Homes “LA Style Practical Beauty San Francisco” January/February

Solo Exhibitions

2018	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
	CECUT(Cultural Museum of Tijuana), Tijuana, Mexico, June
2015	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2014	Fresh Paint Art Gallery
	California Fine Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2013	Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica,
2012	Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver BC
	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
	William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
	Holly Hunt Showroom
	Art Institute, Orange County, CA
2010	Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles,
2009	Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2002	Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001	Gallery Adrienne, La Jolla, CA
	Adrienne Adler Contemporary Fine Art, La Jolla, CA
1999	Gallery Adrienne, La Jolla, CA
1997	ASF (AIDS Service Foundation), Orange County, CA
	APLA (AIDS Project Los Angeles), Los Angeles, CA
1996	Quest Gallery, Taos, NM
	Gallery IBah, Ubud Bali, Indonesia
1993	Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1990	Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018	Coup d’Etat, San Francisco, CA
	Modernism Show, “Wexler House”, Palm Springs, CA
	Palm Springs Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
	FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
	Baisden Gallery, Tampa, FL
	Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver BC
	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
	California Fine Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2016	FP Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
	Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, Canada
	Fresh Paint Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
2015	LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
	Holly Hunt Showrooms, Houston
2014	California Fine Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
	Holly Hunt Showrooms, Houston
	Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, CO
	Hamptons Art Fair, Hamptons, NY
	Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
	Richard Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
	Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
	Jennifer West Showroom, Seattle
	Holly Hunt Showrooms, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York
	Gina B, Laguna Niguel, CA
2013	Hamptons Art Fair, Hamptons, NY
	Richard Demato Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
	McNabb Martin Contemporary, San Diego
2012	Ian Tan Gallery, Vancouver BC
	Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, Canada
	Fresh Paint Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
	Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
	Jennifer West Showroom, Seattle
	William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
	Chapman University, Orange, CA
	Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011	Hamptons Art Fair, Hamptons, NY
	Holly Hunt Showrooms, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York
	Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	McNabb Martin Contemporary, San Diego
2010	LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
	Gina B, Laguna Niguel, CA
	Lurie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009	Gebert Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ
2008	Gebert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
	Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
	Ogilvie Pertl Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
	Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Spring, CA
2007	Space Gallery, Denver, CO
	Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
	Chiaroscuro Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
	Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Spring, CA
	Buschen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2006	Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
	Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005	Buschen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2004	Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
	Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
	Dolby-Chadwick, San Francisco, CA
2003	Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego, CA
	Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002	Ramsden Morrison Gallery, San Diego, CA
2001	Adrienne Adler Contemporary Fine Art, La Jolla, CA
	Glass Garage Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000	Emerald City Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999	Gallery Adrienne, La Jolla, CA
1998	Gallery Adrienne, San Francisco, CA
	Emerald City Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997	Feast on Art, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
	Gallery Adrienne, La Jolla, CA
	Galeries Thierry Salvador, Paris, France
1995	Sterling Marchetti Gallery, New York, NY
	Art Alive’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1994	Elaine Sternberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
	Sterling Marchetti Gallery, New York, NY
1993	Art Alive’, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
	Galeries Thierry Salvador, Paris, France
	Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
	Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1992	Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
	Gallerie Arlette G’maray, Paris, France
1990	William Merrill Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
	Sterling Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Museums and Universities

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manila, the Philippines

Daytona, Florida’s Museum of Arts and Science, FL

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan

De Saisset Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA

Chapman University, Orange, CA