Juxtapoz Magazine – Warhol x Scholder: Cowboys & Indians @ Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas

There may be a lot of America that’s like cinema. There are those who’re ingrained within the material of the story, those who’re inherent within the DNA of the panorama, the thread that ties the expanse of the place collectively. And there are those who undertaking our conceptions again to us. There’s something to be stated in regards to the late Native American artist Fritz Scholder being paired with the late Pop Artist Andy Warhol in an exhibition entitled Warhol x Scholder: Cowboys & Indians, on view on the Museum of the Southwest in Midland, Texas this fall. It’s fairly a major and good curation, as each artists created a way of what America was and have been to develop into in such disparate but seemingly coherent methods.

That’s the cinematic a part of this present. The place Scholder spent a lifetime engaged on the difficult Western imaginative and prescient of the “Native American,” difficult the misconceptions, Warhol’s closing physique of labor, Cowboys and Indians, examined the pop-cultural use of the frontier and the enlargement to the West. “These themes which Warhol handled via deification, by gilding an already pretty-well gilded calf, Scholder handled via extra outright iconoclasm,” says exhibition co-curator Matthew Okay. Ward. “Right here now we have a White artist and an Indigenous artist, two males who knew one another, who met one another, coping with the story of the West in two, aesthetically, very alternative ways. Philosophically, nonetheless, there are some attention-grabbing parallels.” —Evan Pricco