Gilleon Schenck Woodard Show Preview

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R. TOM GILLEON

MÉNAGE À TROIS

GREG WOODARD ORGANIC

July 1 - July 13

Reception July 5 5:00-7:00 PM

BILLY SCHENCK

HOW I WON THE WEST

R. TOM GILLEON MÉNAGE À TROIS With Menage a Trois (Eternal Triangles) Gilleon will debut his first digital artwork, a mesmerizing triptych of teepees against skies changing from dawn to dusk. The show also features a masterful nine-panel grid painting of Native American portraits, as well as an impressive new 5’ x 10’ translucent teepee painting. Viewers can expect to be transported to an evocative Old West rendered anew.

Gilleon’s expert portrayals of Native American history and symbolism of the American West have earned him the acclaim of collectors and museums alike. Just this spring, his painting “Hair Apparent” set a record at auction. In March 2012, the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, GA, featured his work in the celebrated one-man exhibit, The Iconic West of R. Tom Gilleon. Later this summer, he becomes the first living artist to have a solo show at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana.

The exhibit, titled Let Icons Be Icons: The Art of R. Tom Gilleon opens August 16 and runs through December 28, 2013.

The exhibit at Altamira represents Gilleon’s tenth one-man show in Jackson. We are proud to present his exciting new work by one of the most sought after western artists of our time.

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Over the Rainbow Oil 50 x 50 inches

Triage Oil 60 x 120 inches

Blood Ties Oil 32 x 24 inches

Green Blanket Oil 32 x 24 inches

Anasazi Anatum Edition of 21 Bronze 10 x 18 x 11 inches

GREG WOODARD ORGANIC Through his distinctive work, Greg Woodard strives to illustrate the interaction of humans and wildlife, and the collision of the natural world with human inventions. The pieces in Organic beckon with rich, weathered textures and colors that are as much a part of the contemporary West as city lights.

Greg Woodard believes in letting his pieces develop naturally, and being opened minded to whatever form they take on. What makes Woodard’s work unique is the patina process he uses on each of his bronze sculptures. His process allows each edition its own color and texture.

As a master falconer, Woodard has a deep passion for understanding the raptors he studies, and he carries the love and knowledge from these powerful birds into his work. Woodard believes each of his pieces tells a story; he shows this through the interaction between human and animal, expressing how they are affected. Another important feature of Woodard’s work is the railroad track theme, which can be seen in many of his pieces. The railroad tracks symbolize the cultureal impact of the opening of the West.

To date, Woodard is the only artist to have won both decorative and interpretive categories at the world level. His work has been featured at the Ward Museum in Salisbury, MD, and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Wausau, WI. A book of his work, Greg Woodard’s Art of Bird Sculpture by Kurt M. Robinette, was published in 2006.

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Buffalo Medicine Edition of 33 Bronze 24 x 11 x 11 inches

Ghost Rider Edition of 21 Bronze 27 x 29 x 19 inches

Looks West Edition of 21 Bronze 33 x 63 x 25 inches

True Romance State II Oil on Canvas 60 x 50 inches

BILLY SCHENCK HOW I WON THE WEST: THE RETURN OF THE PUNK COWGIRL For How I Won the West, Billy Schenck has drawn on familiar imagery from his seriographs of the 1980s and 1990s to create a new series of dot paintings. Schenck’s characteristic humor and social critique will be in full force here.

Schenck has been known internationally for the past four decades as one of the originators of the contemporary Pop Western movement and an American painter who incorporates techniques from Photo-Realism with a Pop Art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West.

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.

Recent career highlights for the artist include inclusion in the Western Horizons: Landscapes from the Contemporary Realism Collection exhibit at the Denver Art Museum in 2011. Also in 2011, the Tuscon Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of serigraphs created by Schenck from 1971 through 1996. His work is featured currently in the group exhibition, Back in the Saddle, at the New Mexico Museum of Art, through September 15, 2013. His work is the subject of the new book, Schenck in the 21st Century, by Amy Abrams.

For more images from Billy Schenck please visit: http://www.altamiraart.com/exhibitions/_61/_img/

Somewhere Beyond the Horizon Oil on Canvas 32 x 38 inches

Duck Season Oil on Canvas 36 x 36 inches

Balance of Power State II Oil on Canvas 30 x 36 inches

Special Delivery Oil on Canvas 30 x 45 inches

For more information please contact Dean Munn at dean@altamiraart.com or Katherine Harrington at katherine@altamiraart.com or call 307.739.4700 www.altamiraart.com