Bill Schenck: Book Signing

Book Signing for  "Bill Schenck, Serigraphs 1971-1996"
Saturday, July 10^th 10 AM to 1 PM

Over the past four decades Bill Schenck's hard-edge oil paintings examining the realities of modern Western life have ranged from the nostalgic and the surreal to Photorealism and Conceptualism.   Yet little attention has been given to the unique serigraphs he created over twenty-five years.  Between the early 1970's and the mid-1990's, Schenck created fifty-two editions of serigraphs encompassing a variety of themes including fictionalized Western histories, Native American subjects, and depictions of the modern cowboys and cowgirls.  These silkscreen prints reveal the serious, the playful, and the critical aspects of his fascination with the West.  
 
The romanticized cowboys and Indians and Technicolor vistas in Schenck's serigraphs exhibit a passionate reverence for the cinematic Western.   His Photorealist style lends itself to a contemporary interpretation of the West in a melding of Pop art graphic boldness and Warhol-like mythmaking.  To heighten the glamour and drama of his subjects, he pays sharp attention to compositional elements such as setting, viewing angle, light, and color.   

"The art of Bill Schenck has found a home in museums and private collections all over the world.  His cinematic depictions of the West attempt to both honor and challenge its icons and its myths.  Schenck's Wyoming roots and personal history in Jackson make him a consistent favorite among locals." -- Mark D. Tarrant, Gallery Director, Altamira Fine Art 

From early depictions of cinematic cowboys to real-life cowboys and cowgirls to poetic reveries about the Native American existence in the Southwest, Schenck's serigraphs meld the real with the imagined and autobiography with fantasy.