Winner of the Hennessy Next Black Master Art Competition
(jury and viewer’s choice award!)
If you’re in Detroit, come see my next solo show, Alexis Peskine: Freedom Fried, at G.R N’Namdi Gallery. It is my largest collection of work since The French Evolution.
A piece currently at Rush Arts Gallery 526 w 26th St. bet 10th & 11th ave in Chelsea NY, NY
The show is about Garveyism
I grew up in Paris where the cops harass Blacks and Arabs.
Below is my view on the myth of French "integration"
Oh and by the way, someone please tell me why would someone have to "integrate" where they were born? Isn’t society a reflection of its population
Below are a series of real French advertisings. I wonder how stereotypes get carried on...
This piece is currently showed at the Amistad Center at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in a show that celebrates MLK and the Civil Rights Movement.
It is called "He Died For US?" and it is made out of gold leaf and nails. I believe that everyone need to be aware of the horrors of the past to prevent future ones from happening.
An album cover I shot and designed for french R&B Singer Quinze
Music Video that I made for the French rap group FRER200. They produce their music and they’re the tightest rap groups in France in my opinion. In fact, check out my brother’s page myspace.com/gyst. The other members of the group FRER200 my boy Fibo and Kombo also on my favorites to check out
FRER 200 - Ce Mec
Alexis Aliocha Peskine was born in Paris, France, on September 29, 1979. He is a 2004 Fulbright Scholar who holds a B.F.A. from Howard University an M.A. and M.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Peskines use of graphic and commercial images in fine art is informed by his early start in graphic design. At age 15, he was the youngest student to enter the Apprentice Center of Formation for the Graphic Art in Paris; he subsequently worked for Crayures as an industrial designer for clients such as Roland Garros, Malterre and Fly. He also served a stint as Creative Director for Burrell Communications in Chicago. Peskine bridges the gap between graphic design and fine art by using the same design aesthetic to appeal to the masses, as his work often touches on the ideology of consumerism and mass consumption.
As a junior at Howard University in 2002, Peskine was the first winner of the Verizon HBCU Student Art Competition; the following year, he won second place in the same competition. His work has attracted the attention of Chrissie Iles of the Whitney Museum and Yukie Kamaya of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Burrell Communications Chairman Emeritus Tom Burrell and musicians Donald Byrd, Talib Kweli and Common all own Peskines work.
Drawing inspiration from his paternal grandfather who survived a German concentration camp, to his maternal grandfather who lived in the favelas of Salvador, Bahia, to the loving marriage of his own Franco-Russian father and Afro-Brazilian mother, Peskine challenges his audience with provocative, cynical and sometimes earnest takes on serious subjects. Much of his work also celebrates family, friends and the beauty and humor of solitary inanimate objects.
Hi Alexis! Thank you so much for the add. You are so very talented. I enjoyed your exhibit immensely at MoCADA about 2 summers ago. I want to say 'EXCELLENT' but even that word doesn't quite say enough.
Merci Pour L'Ajout Alexis Peskine, passe sur ma page check mes nouveaux morceaux, extrait de l'album intitulé "Thomas Traoré" à venir en janvier 2009. Retrouvez aussi le dernier clip polémique "Négronomie" ! Laissez vos impressions ! / Thanks for the add Alexis Peskine, come & check my new songs and also have a look on "Negronomie", the last polemical video clip from Grain De Caf extract from the forthcoming album intituled "Thomas Traoré", coming in January 2009. Peace
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