id:			168350
accession number:	2010.178
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.178
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:22.151000

Portrait of Q with Thorns, 1992. Christopher Pekoc (American, 1941-). Photo based mixed media; image: 123.4 x 90.4 cm (48 9/16 x 35 9/16 in.); paper: 123.4 x 90.4 cm (48 9/16 x 35 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Wilbur Markstrom in Memory of Rice A. Hershey, Jr. 2010.178

title:				Portrait of Q with Thorns
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creation date:			1992
creation date earliest:		1992
creation date latest:		1992
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creditline:			Gift of Wilbur Markstrom in Memory of Rice A. Hershey, Jr.
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	photo based mixed media
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Christopher Pekoc (American, 1941-)  - artist
Christopher Pekoc American, 1941- Trained as a painter at Kent State University (1968-70), Cleveland-born Christopher Pekoc has worked extensively with mixed-media collage since 1987. To create his works Pekoc combines photogenerated imagery, often fragments of body parts and menacing objects such as thorns, spikes, and severed wings, with paint, glue, shellac, and other materials. In 1992 he was one of 11 Cleveland artists invited to participate in a poster project sponsored by the Cleveland Health Issues Task Force, Ohio's oldest aids organization. Working from the insights of Jim Kilonsky, one of his former students who was hiv positive, Pekoc fabricated his commission using as a central motif the hand-as a symbol of creation, compassion, and healing. Pekoc has had one-person exhibitions at the Akron Art Institute (1978), Kenyon College (1986), and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1991), and has been awarded fellowships by the Ohio Arts Council (1990, 1994). He lives in Cleveland, teaching painting at Case Western Reserve University. A.W.<br>Biographical information exists in the Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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measurements: Image: 123.4 x 90.4 cm (48 9/16 x 35 9/16 in.); Paper: 123.4 x 90.4 cm (48 9/16 x 35 9/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Scratched into emulsion on recto: "CHRISTOPHER/PEKOC/AUGUST/1.9.9.2"
Written in pencil on verso of canvas: "For Rice on/his birthday 1992/PORTRAIT OF Q WITH THORNS/FINISHED AUGUST 1992/Christopher Pekoc (signed)"

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize
	opening date:   2010-06-13T00:00:00
	<i>In Honor of The Cleveland Arts Prize</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 13, 2010-March 13, 2011).

	title:		Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter
	opening date:   2019-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Beyond Truth: Photography after the Shutter</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Artist; Rice A. Hershey, Jr. and Wilbur Markstrom, Cleveland (commissioned by Markstrom as a gift for Hershey); Cleveland Museum of Art
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