HOHMANN FINE ART, PALM DESERT /
PAUL ECKE
"Warriors with Messengers"
Opening Reception:
Friday, November 22, 2019
5 - 8 pm
44651 Village Court | Palm Desert I California
“Warriors with Messengers” are an installation of mixed media life sized sculptures. My intent when I created each piece was to communicate to my viewer the ethereal imagery that I experienced. Each sculpture represents different messages given to us by the ‘’Divine Entities of Love and Light.” The messages given to us vary in nature from physical to mental. All messages are spiritually based. I have incorporated many objects including butterflies, computer boards, crystals, birds, puppets and dolls, to mention a few, into the sculptures. They are significant in meaning to me in that they symbolize and carry profound messages.
BOY DREAMER /
The year is 1957. Four-year-old Paul Ecke sits timidly at a foreign kitchen table, eating the first inferior meal of many in a foster home. Longing for his beloved mother, he sees her only on short weekend visits that grow more infrequent over time, as she tries unsuccessfully to hide a nervous breakdown, along with yet another growing pregnancy. Struggling to endure the strict rules of the house and the coldness of his foster parents, Paul begins to live in his creative mind where everything is possible and the grandest of dreams take flight. But after his family reunites, the adults he relies on both crumble and harm, as improprieties occur and secrets are slowly revealed that add more layers to the complexity of a visibly sensitive boy’s view of the world. 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.
Boy Dreamer now on audiobook.
NOOT THE ROOT GOOT /
I AM EXCITED to announce that my children’s picture book “Root The Noot Goot “is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble in Spanish and English. I created this story when I was an educator many years ago. I invented many of the characters at that time as well. The talented and creative Illustrator Norma Samuelson brought it all to life.
The story teaches children many lessons, one being PATIENCE. The little rootlets (small seedlings) that live in Rootaland, (below the ground), have to learn PATIENCE. Once they learn this virtue from Noot (protagonist) and the GIANT LEAF KING (creator) they experience the magic of the four seasons.
The passing of a year can bring a marked change in the weather and the surrounding environment. The four seasons — winter, spring, summer, autumn which can vary significantly in characteristics, and can prompt changes in the world around them.
SPACE ANNEX, DENVER /
GROUP EXHIBITION
Space Gallery in Denver recently opened their new ANNEX building highlighting each of their gallery's artists work in the exhibition "Momentum" that ran May through September 2019.
SPACE GALLERY OPENING, DENVER /
PAUL ECKE - THREE PERSON EXHIBITION - STRIPPED SURFACE
August through September 2019
My latest series, “Comic Strip”, was inspired by a recent trip to main land China. I visited several comic-book museums in Shanghai. The communications that I encountered in viewing the many different stories in the comic strips reminded me of many of my past series that I have explored in painting. All of my painting series relate to lines of communication, repetitive patterns and thought sequencing. In many comics there’s adventure and mystery.
KPBS Interview /
Artist’s Memoir Describes How Traumatic Childhood Fueled Creativity
Thursday, March 28, 2019By Maureen Cavanaugh, Megan Burke
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.
BOY DREAMER PENNED AS SCREENPLAY /
Artist Memoir Boy Dreamer by Paul Ecke to Have Screenplay Penned by Actor Screenwriter Jacob Kyle Young
Tuesday, February 12th 2019
Actor and screenwriter Jacob Kyle Young just penned an agreement to turn Paul Ecke’s book, Boy Dreamer: An Artist’s Memoir of Identity, Awakening, and Beating the Odds into screenplay for 2020 production.
LAGUNA LIFE & PEOPLE, STU NEWS LAGUNA /
An Abstract Life: Artist Paul Ecke pens a memoir that will hearten you, inspire you & maybe shock you
Story by LYNETTE BRASFIELD
“Every painting unravels a story,” says local artist and Black Iris co-founder Paul Ecke, whose works, mostly abstract paintings, are displayed in high-end galleries all over the world.
CITY OF HOPE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA /
HOW AN ARTIST FOUND THE BEAUTY IN HIS CANCER JOURNEY
November 30, 2018 | by Dory Benford
Paul Ecke expresses himself through his art. One of this painter and sculptor’s many gifts is the ability to find the beauty in everything — even a devastating cancer diagnosis.
KPBS: Paul Ecke Interview on book: BOY DREAMER, March 28th /
PBS
Author and Artist, Paul Ecke will be interviewed on his new book “BOY DREAMER: An Artist’s Memoir of Identity, Awakening and Beating the Odds” and his upcoming art show at California Fine Arts, La Jolla, CA.
Radio: 10:00AM March 28, 2019
BOY Dreamer: book Signing, March 30, 2019 /
Book Signing
Author, Paul Ecke will be signing his new book: “BOY DREAMER: An Artist’s Memoir of Identity, Awakening and Beating the Odds”. The artist’s inspirational story was just selected to be written as a screenplay penned by Jacob Kyle Young for 2020 production of a feature film.
Books will be available for sale at the event. A portion of the proceeds of all art and book sales will be donated to Orangewood Foundation, a nonprot provider of services to foster youth.
March 30th, 6-9PM
7946 Ivanhoe Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
SPACE GALLERY, Denver, Colorado: August 22, 2019 /
Paul Ecke
John Wood, Bill Snider and Paul Ecke
August 22, 2019, 6-9PM
SPACE GALLERY
400 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, Colorado 80204
Book Signing: 5:30PM
HOHMANN FINE ART, Palm Desert, California: May 24, 2019 /
Paul Ecke
SOLO EXHIBITION
May 24, 2019
HOHMANN FINE ART
73-130 El Paseo, Ste K
Palm Desert, CA 92260
CONTEMPORARY Fine Arts, La Jolla, CA: March 30, 2019 6:00-9:00PM /
Paul Ecke
A RETROSPECTIVE - CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF ARTISTRY
Paul Ecke will be signing his new book: “BOY DREAMER: An Artist’s Memoir of Identity, Awakening and Beating the Odds”. The artist’s inspirational story was just selected to be written as a screenplay penned by Jacob Kyle Young for 2020 production of a feature film.
Enjoy a retrospective collection of Ecke’s artwork. Books will be available for sale at the event. A portion of the proceeds of all art and book sales will be donated to Orangewood Foundation, a nonprot provider of services to foster youth.
7946 Ivanhoe Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037
CONTEMPORARY Fine Arts, La Jolla, CA: May 2016 /
Salton Sea Art Show : February 12, 2016, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. /
Paul Ecke "Waterfalls"
SEArtists is a division of SEAthletes, and partners with artists and the Salton Sea community to bring awareness to the sea and to be mindful of California’s largest body of water.
For every one friend we can reach through sharing art on the sea, we will be able to increase passionate Salton Sea advocates tenfold. If we translate our passion into purpose, and purpose into action, we will be able to improve the Salton Sea community and ultimately the longevity of the sea.
Donna McGinnis
Betsy Stewart
Paul Ecke "Fractal"
Paul Ecke "Fractal"
Georgi Andronov
Upcoming Solo Exhibition at CFA: La Jolla, CA: December 5, 2015 /
The Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery is our premier fine art gallery featuring Paintings, Sculpture and Limited Edition works from Internationally acclaimed artists. Located in Downtown La Jolla, we offer assistance in finding, acquiring and even hanging the perfect art for your home or business.
SEArtists /
SEArtists is proud to announce the premiere of the Salton Sea Art Show is an official Modernism Week event. The opening, Friday February 12, 2016, will kick of SEAthletes NSX weekend event at the North Shore Beach & Yacht Club. Tickets will go on sale 11/1/15. To discover all the event details visit www.seartists.org/#focus. Join us for a Party at the Yacht Club.
Space Gallery, Denver Opening: September 10, 2015 /
Press Release
Exhibition: CONFLUENCE
Showing: September 10th 2015 - October 17th 2015
Denver—Water. Rising sea levels, tales of drought and increasing scarcity, discussions around its rights, its uses, its increasingly critical role as a global currency: Water is a critical planetary issue that’s very much front and center for those of us in Colorado. And now, it’s the subject of an evocative and thought-provoking new exhibition at Denver’s Space Gallery.
“Water is a complex and loaded topic,” says curator and gallerist Michael Burnett. “And in this showing, we’ll explore Confluence as the place where art and issues come together.”
Confluence, featuring works by Tyler Aiello, Monica Aiello, Betsy Stewart and Paul Ecke, examines the subject of water—not in an overtly political way, but rather as a way to fuse creativity with our conscious awareness of the subject matter. In Confluence, the artists employ unexpected shapes, colors and media to suggest the presence of water, our involvement with it and, by implication, the considerations that accompany it.
“Art is perhaps the truest and most immediate form of storytelling,” artist Paul Ecke reflected. “And water gives us a vital and important story to tell.”
Artist and environmental activist Monica Aiello agrees. “Literally and metaphorically, rivers are the life blood of Earth. Like our own circulatory systems, they bring life to global civilizations. It’s a topic we must pay attention to and a conversation that must be had. We no longer have a choice.”
“In this space, at this time,” Michael Burnett concludes, “water will inform an intimate experience with art. We see will see a confluence of the beauty, the urgency and the necessity. And if we walk away with one more moment of consideration for the truth behind the beauty, then this show will have done its job.”
The exhibit runs through October 17th at Space Gallery, 400 Santa Fe Drive, the southernmost anchor of Denver’s thriving Santa Fe Arts District.
Artist Paul Ecke
Fellow Showing Artist Betsy Stewart from Washington DC