Julie Sasse, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Artġ965-1967 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohioġ967-1969 BFA Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MissouriĢ014 - Patron Choice Award, “Night of the Artists” The Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TXĢ014 - Best of Western Books Award in the Modern Western Art category, True West Magazine, for his book Schenck in the 21st Century: The Myth of the Hero and the Truth of AmericaĢ013 - U.S. From early depictions of cinematic cowboys to real-life cowboys and cowgirls to poetic reveries about the Native American existence in the Southwest, Schenck melds the real with the imagined, autobiography with fantasy.” Using the artistic formula of classic western film direction and the photographically reliant systems of contemporary art, he has bridged two genres that resonate with the American experience. “What has remained constant throughout Schenck’s career is his individuality in dealing with the subject matter of the west. Corporate collections include: American Airlines, I.B.M., Raymond James Financial, Wells Fargo Bank, Hilton Hotels, Sturm Ruger and The National Bank of Switzerland. Private collections include the estate of Malcolm Forbes, Steve Forbes, Chris Evert, Elaine Horwitch, Louis Meisel, Martina Navratilova, Laurance Rockefeller, the estate of Fritz Scholder and Sylvester Stallone. Museum collections include the Mesa Southwest Museum, The Tucson Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. He is 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.Ĭareer highlights for the artist include the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West exhibit, the Denver Art Museum’s “Western Horizons” and a retrospective of serigraphs created by Schenck from 1971 through 1996 at the Tucson Museum of Art. Schenck has had over 100 solo shows and is included in 44 museum collections. Billy Schenck has been known internationally for 44 years as one of the originators of the contemporary "Pop" western movement.
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