Art
"No 1 Fox" Poster of Serigraph by Bill Schenck (framed by Barb's Frame of Mind))
- Item Number
- 621
- Estimated Value
- 100 USD
- Sold
- 90 USD to alexis53
- Number of Bids
- 12 - Bid History
Item Description
Bill Schenck is a contemporary American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Like the heroes he idolized in B-Westerns, Schenck might well be called the "Good Badman" of Western American art. Early in his career, he became known for appropriating cinematic imagery, which he reproduced in a flattened, reductivist style, where colors are laid side by side rather than blended or shadowed. Drawing upon narrative tensions that have attracted mass audiences to western fiction and movies, Schenck added hot colors, surreal juxtapositions and stylized patterning to explore clashes between wilderness and civilization, the individual and community, nature and culture, freedom and restriction. His irreverence in associating western heroes with racism, the drug scene, consumerism and sexuality let to an evolving series of works. Among them one finds deserts populated with cowgirls sipping champagne on the bumpers of Rolls Royces, Native Americans contemplating the statistics of their land loss, and "cerealized" self-portraits of the artist in leather and sunglasses. Born in the Midwest in 1947,raised in Lander, W, a quintessential baby-boomer, Bill Schenck attended the Columbus College of Art and Design from 1965 to 1967. He then transferred to the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri, where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1969. One week after graduation, he moved to the Soho district of New York City, where many first generation Photo-Realists, Color Field, and Minimal painters were gaining national and international acclaim.
Item Special Note
Winner must pick up at our main studios during regular business hours, 220 S 4th Avenue, Tucson AZ 85701, or it can be mailed for $25.
Donated By:
Mary Beth Haralovich
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