EVANDER BANKS
AKA ECKO OR ECKOFATL ON IG
About Ecko's Work
ECKOFATL is proud to present a selection of his work. They are widely recognized for unique artistic processes in printmaking, drawing, and painting. Ecko's artwork explores humanity’s desperate obsession with communicating through pictographic images on a micro and macro scale. Reoccurring themes in his artwork are; identity politics, sociological perspectives, cultural perspectives, primary identity, cultural aesthetics, identity systems, and relationships between humanity and technology, nature and technology, and finally semiotic studies . His influences are; asemic writing, folk art, abstraction, cave paintings, mark making, street art, photography, and accidental art.
His process starts by pushing traditional mediums across a vast variety of substrates then utilizing either photography or scanned imaging to complete a work digitally, or he starts a work digitally prints it out then utilizes traditional mediums on top of the work to completion. Often the composition is established before work begins, but sometimes the composition reveals itself to him over time. He has chosen the drawing, painting, and printmaking discipline because it offers many unique techniques and avenues to explore. He feels that the discipline is the broadest, and is a vast environment that he can see his work thriving through. With how much drawing, painting, and digitally editing is present in his work, he could honestly not see himself in another discipline. His ultimate goal as an artist is creative freedom, and creative freedom for all artists, especially young minority American artists.
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"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
Jean-Michel Basquiat
CONTACT
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Artist CV
April 2017
SIGNS OF LIFE, GROUP EXHIBITION
The Arts Exchange, 750 Kalb Street SE Atlanta, GA 30312
June 2017
LIFELINES, GROUP EXHIBITION
The Arts Exchange, 750 Kalb Street SE
Atlanta, GA 30312
July 2017
THE PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW, ART FESTIVAL
Georgia Freight Depot
65 Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Atlanta, GA 30334
October 2017
THE BAKERY, GROUP EXHIBITION
825 Warner St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310
Nov 2017
BURN AWAY MAGAZINE SOIRÉE, OPEN STUDIO MFA GSU
Georgia State University
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design
10 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
December 2017
THE ODD'S END, GROUP EXHIBITION
2774 E College Ave, Decatur, Georgia 30030
March 2018
THE PANCAKES & BOOZE ART SHOW, ART FESTIVAL
Georgia Freight Depot
65 Martin Luther King Jr Dr
Atlanta, GA 30334
March 2018
FUSION GALLERY, AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION EXHIBITION
Georgia State University
100 Auburn Avenue
Atlanta, GA 30303
March 2018
THE MAMMAL GALLERY - HOMAGE, GROUP EXHIBITION
217 Mitchell Street Southwest, Atlanta, GA
April 2018
20TH ANNUAL JURIED SHOW, STUDENT EXHIBITION
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design
10 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
May 2018
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF GEORGIA - PIN UP SHOW, GROUP EXHIBITION
75 Bennett St NW, Atlanta, GA 30309
May 2018
"WHAT LIVES HERE?", GROUP EXHIBITION
Druid Hills area
DIY Rental space, undergrad ran
December 2018
BFA EXIT SHOW, GROUP EXHIBITION
Georgia State University
Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design
10 Peachtree Center Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30303
December 2018
MINT GALLERY - PIN UP, GROUP EXHIBITION
92 Peachtree Street SW
Atlanta, GA 30303
January 2018
AND STILL WE RISE, GROUP EXHIBITION
Johns Creek Arts Center
6290 Abbotts Bridge Rd, Bldg. 700, Johns Creek, GA 30097
March 2019
THE ODD'S END, GROUP EXHIBITION
2774 E College Ave, Decatur, Georgia 30030
June 2019
ARTHOUSE : ART SHOW + MANSION PARTY, GROUP EXHIBITION
368 Ponce De Leon Ave NE