Collection: Schenck, Billy

One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the West. Schenck is known for utilizing cinematic imagery reproduced in a flattened, reductive style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of Southwest Art magazine, his work was described as “a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”

Schenck’s artwork is now in sixty museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Albuquerque Museum, Autry Museum of the American West, Booth Western Art Museum, Briscoe Western Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, and Tucson Museum of Art, as well as in private and corporate collections such as those of American Airlines, IBM, Sony, and Saatchi and Saatchi. His work has been showcased in more than 120 solo shows in the United States and Europe.
 
A genuine cowboy himself, Schenck is a ranch-sorting world champion and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.