The Imaginary West

We love our myths here in America, and where would our beloved West be without them? After all, reality is complicated; myth is tidy. Here I’ve tried to take on the myth of the cowboy artist, a largely fictitious occupation that I myself have been guilty of promoting for some time. Here he’s become a part of the larger myth, sporting a six gun and a paint brush, sitting backwards in the saddle to record a time and place that exists as much in the imagination as it does on the lone-prarie. People have asked me just what it is he’s fixing to paint on that canvas. Good question. What kind of West would you like to see?

-DW

Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at:

http://www.wilderarts.com

and at the

Laughing Raven Gallery     417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona

and on facebook:

                                                “David Wilder Arts”