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Weird West

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  • Weird West

    On view at Hashimoto Contemporary LA: 13 April - 4 May 2024
    • Photo of a man with a beard wearing a black cowboy hat and a white shirt on a red background
      rafa esparza, Fabian Guerrero and Yomahra Gonzalez, Sueños: Tony, 2023
    • Photo of a persons back with embroidered jeans and black longsleeve shirt with their hands behind their back
      rafa esparza, Fabian Guerrero and Yomahra Gonzalez, Sueños: Jaime, 2023
    • Two tapestries with paintings of two topless woman wearing colorful patterned pants, cowboy hats, eye masks and boxing gloves. One is taking a swing at the others faces.
      Becca Fuhrman, Dead Ringer, 2024
    • Painting of a man falling from the sky over a green plant. The man is wearing short denim shorts, brown cowboy boots and has long hair
      Dylan Roworth, Keep Falling For Blue, 2024
      $ 8,500.00
    • Painting of a buffalo painted on a white banner in the desert with tons of clouds and mountains in the background
      Drew Christie, Buffalo Show, 2023
    • Painting of a white horse running through a ton of clouds
      Drew Christie, Atmospheric River, 2023
    • Painting of a cowboy hat floating above a dark landscape of mountains. The cowboy hat has a clown face painted on it.
      Grace Kennison, Borden Chantry, 2024
    • Painting of a man wearing a straw hat and a button up shirt in blue tones on a cream background
      Joel Daniel Phillips, Dust Jacket Marked Killed #22, 2024
    • Painting of the torso of a figure wearing a yellow, red and cream western shirt with embroidery and fringe. The figure is holding a small black dog in its arms
      Angela Burson, Lucky, 2024
    • Painting of a white and black western shirt with several company logos imprinted on the back. On each logo is a knife piercing the shirt and creating blood stains around the logos. The shirts arms are tied behind the back. The border of the painting has many small televisions with blurred screens.
      Alex Ziv, Til' There's No Feelings Left, 2024
    • Painting of a small a frame church next to a palm tree in blue tones
      Patrick Oates, Midnight Mass, 2024
    • Painting of a man on a horse with a cowboy hat on in blue tones
      Patrick Oates, I Can If I Want I Just Don't Want To Yet, 2024
    • Painting of a figure wearing a cowboy hat looking down, above its head is a bar lamp in pink tones
      Robert Martin, Vignette 4 (Brandon), 2023
    • Robert Martin, Vignette 3 (After/For Ellie), 2023
      Robert Martin, Vignette 3 (After/For Ellie), 2023
    • Painting of a abstract desert landscape with various shapes like stars and suns and moon.
      Madeleine Tonzi, Subterranean Rainbow, 2024
    • Painting of a woman riding on a bucking horse holding a gun on top of a red car with two police officers standing nearby
      Luke Pelletier, American Cheese, 2024
    • Painting of a cowgirl topless leaning over a wooden post with a desert background in the background
      Jillian Evelyn, Lone Gazer, 2024
    • Painting of a cowboy riding a horse wearing a large hat and stripped pants
      Kara Rose Marshall, Rider, 2024
    • Painting of a naked woman laying down on the ground wearing a black cowboy hat and brown cowboy boots around a desert landscape
      Kara Rose Marshall, Desert Rider, 2024
    • A pink ceramic pot with mickey mouse holding a gun, bugs bunny wearing cowboy outfit and a pinup girl holding her hat in her hands
      AP Shrewsbury, Mickey Goes Rogue, 2024
    • Painting of two male figures embracing each other and kissing. They are both wearing western clothing with cowboy hats and bandanas around their necks. In the background is a desert landscape with cactus and pink clouds.
      Anthony Hurd, Howdy Stranger, 2024
    • ceramic banner with the words rode hard, put away wet
      Eleanor Foy, Rode Hard Put Away Wet, 2023
    • Painting of Mickey Mouse wearing a giant cowboy hat and holding a lasso, a horse head through a horse shoe,
      Christopher Martin, WILD HEARTS CANT BE BROKEN, 2024
      $ 1,000.00
    • Painting of a face with half of the face being a skull, the other half is a woman with short curly hair smoking a cigarette wearing a cowboy hat, there are three birds next to the face.
      Christopher Martin, WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE, 2024
      $ 1,000.00
    • ceramic sculpture of a gun with a penis coming out of the barrel
      Christine Mai Nguyen, Big Iron, 2024
    • Ceramic bolo tie of a red cowboy hat on a black leather tie
      Christine Mai Nguyen, Bolo, 2024
    • ceramic sculpture of red pointy cowboy boot
      Christine Mai Nguyen, Pointy Boot, 2024
  • Painting of a cowboy in blue tones by Joel Daniel Phillips

     LOS ANGELES—Popular culture has defined the cowboy by his riding boots, fringed leather pants, acute smoking habit, large bushy mustache, and stone-cold demeanor. Originally the spitting image of Americana, artists and filmmakers alike have recently queered, weirded, diversified, and otherwise transformed the macho cowboy into an icon for their communities. Spanning painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography, the group exhibition Weird West at Hashimoto Contemporary explores how the various lenses and voices of the American experience have changed Western iconography and its historical associations, revealing the contemporary cowboy’s metamorphosed identity.

     

    Drew Christie creates surreal, mirage-like depictions of the land and its wild inhabitants, skewing our perspectives as the miles of open terrain might confuse a typical city-dweller. Grace Kennison paints equally surreal Western icons like horses, mountains, and menacing cowgirls from the remote western frontier of the San Juan Valley in Colorado. Looming above canyons illuminated by car lights, a cowboy hat sports clown makeup and a golden cross necklace, suggesting the symbols of western expansion, while ubiquitous, are performative. Drawn from more intimate sources, Patrick Oates’s scenes of cowboys, horses, and lone churches cast a somber mood on the typically action-filled genre. The Australian artist depicts characters from his family tree in twilight blue, imagining the grief and sorrow of relatives he’s never met to become closer to the ones he has. Rendered in rich, earthy hues, Anthony Hurd’s cowboy lovers mix the tough, masculine ideal of the Wild West with the soft tenderness of newfound love. 

     

    Together, the artists in Weird West merge their own stories, cultures, and histories with the iconography of the Western genre, reimagining the icons of the American past to create a future that looks and feels like their weird realities. 

     

    Join us for the opening of Weird West on Saturday, April 13th from 6 pm to 8 pm. Many artists will be in attendance. The exhibition will be on view Saturday, April 13th through Saturday, May 4th. For additional information, images, or exclusive content, please email LA@hashimotocontemporary.com

     

    Angela Burson | Drew Christie | Grace Kennison | Jillian Evelyn | rafa esparza | Eleanor Foy | Becca Fuhrman | Yomahra Gonzalez | Fabian Guerrero | Anthony Hurd | Christine Mai Nguyen | Kara Rose Marshall | Robert Martin | Christopher Martin | Patrick Oates | Luke Pelletier | Joel Daniel Phillips | Dylan Anthony Roworth | AP Shrewsbury | Madeleine Tonzi | Alex Ziv | curated by Miranda Evans

     

     

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New York, NY 10002

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1275 Minnesota St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107

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