Fahamu Pecou

Start date: Saturday, October 18, 2008
Event is ongoing: Until Saturday, November 15, 2008

Working as a graphic illustrator for various rap and hip-hop acts in Atlanta, Fahamu Pecou became interested in the self-marketing and persona building antics of music and television celebrities. Pecou began an active sticker and T-shirt campaign, “Fahamu Pecou is the Shit” which filtered into a series of paintings depicting the artist himself on a number of different highbrow art and culture periodicals such as, Artforum, Esopus, Flash Art and Interview. His newest body of work, Stunt'd Like My Daddy continues to build on the themes of self-promotion and identity, focusing on confronting "the imposition of stereotypes on the black male in the media, art and society."