Christopher Pekoc

Christopher Pekoc - Known for his experimental mixed-media work, Pekoc creates complex photo-based assemblages. John Wood, teacher, celebrated poet and photographic critic described Pekoc’s work as “…often life-sized, beautiful, and individually handmade photographs [that] contain drawing, painting, and collage…composed of smaller, colored bits of thick, stitched paper and polyester film that have been sanded, scratched, or crumpled and then coated with paint, varnish, or shellac. They bring to mind the shimmering mosaics of Ravenna, as well as many of the paintings of Gustav Klimt…”

Pekoc taught painting and drawing in the Case Western Reserve University Art Studio department for 30 years. He has received five Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships and an OAC sponsored two-month International Residency in the Czech Republic.
His work has appeared in more than 110 solo and group shows at institutions including the Cleveland Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, the Akron Art Museum, the Southern Ohio Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Australia, the Ueda Gallery in Tokyo, and several galleries in New York City.

His work is also in permanent collections at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum, the Southern Ohio Museum of Art, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Czech Center of Photography, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida, and the Progressive Insurance Art Collection.
His late-1970s mural “Night Sky, Cleveland” looks down on Brett hall in the main Cleveland Public Library’s downtown location.