The art of Alex Echo is characterized by "pattern painting" - vivid colors, repeated elements and secret codes hidden with in the complex imagery of his work. Echo had an artistic calling from an early age, winning his first art "competition" in second grade by designing a pamphlet for his school play. Drawn to poetry, scriptwriting, and figure studies, Echo opened his own gallery in Denver in 1980, a decision he calls "a great successÄa super experiment." The responsibilities of gallery ownership were followed by a period of exploration and world travel, a migration that took him from Paris to Amsterdam to Mystic, CT, before settling in one of America's oldest artist's colonies, the island of Rockport off the coast of New England. Further stops in Miami and Manhattan led the way the west coast where Echo lives today. Dedicated to the causes of AIDS care and literacy, the creations of Echo have been displayed in galleries from Japan to New York and featured in Absolut Vodka's Absolut Artists of the Nineties.