Saatchi Online Artist: Alex Echo; "This drawing, "A Prayer For The Drunken Ghost Of Jackson Pollack was created in my New York studio. It is one of many I've done that are created by ""

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Alex Echo

Send, surrey, uk, United Kingdom

b.1958, Colorado, USA.

These paintings, these sculptures, drawings and collages are all part of a larger work, a life's work. They are each rungs on a ladder from which this artist climbs onto...

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Description: At age seven, while at elementary school in Denver, Colorado, I had my first run in with the law. Having had a disagreement with another second grader I was sent to the Principle's office to cool my jets. The administration assistant, needing to keep this young hooligan busy, gave me a pencil and paper and said, "draw something for the school play." I doodled a group of kids singing. To my suprise my drawing was used as the program announcement and several hundred copies were made. I then said to myself "there's something to this drawing thing, hmmm." I try to push open the boundaries of drawing with the inclusion of liquid to the primal and powdery material of charcoal. With charcoal being fire and wood, an ancient mark