INNOVATIVE FINE ART IN SANTA FE AND DURANGO

Featured Artist: Billy Schenck

Billy Schenck is a pioneering Western pop artist known for his bold, cinematic paintings that blend classic cowboy iconography with modern aesthetics. Inspired by comic book styles and vintage Western film stills, his work uses sharp lines, vibrant colors, and dramatic compositions to reimagine the American West. With a career spanning decades, Schenck’s art has been featured in major museum collections and exhibitions worldwide. Explore his latest works at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and Durango, CO.

Experience Billy Schenck at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM & Durango, CO

Experience the striking Western pop art of Billy Schenck at Blue Rain Gallery. His signature blend of bold color, sharp contrast, and cinematic storytelling brings a fresh perspective to classic Western imagery. Visit Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and Durango, CO, to explore his latest works and see the modern West through his visionary lens.

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Billy Schenck

Study for Tsegi Canyon

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Kenny

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Wait Until Dark

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Women Artists of the Ancient Southwest

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The Wanderers

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No Wind No Sand

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43% of American Men

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Dark Walls

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Sixto Got Left Behind

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About Billy Schenck

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, reductivist style, where colors are displayed side-by-side rather than blended or shadowed. In the August 2014 issue of SouthwestArt magazine, his work was described as “a stance … a pendulum between the romantic and the irreverent.”

Schenck’s artwork is now in 54 museum collections, including Smithsonian Institution, Denver Art Museum, The Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Booth Western Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, the Mesa Southwest Museum, Museum of the Southwest, Midland TX, Albuquerque Fine Arts Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art. Private collections include the estate of Malcolm Forbes, Laurance Rockefeller, the estate of Fritz Scholder, and Sylvester Stallone. Corporate collections include American Airlines, IBM, Sony, and Saatchi & Saatchi.

With over 100 solo shows in the U.S. and Europe, career highlights include the Denver Art Museum’s 2011 Western Horizons, the 2013 Utah Museum of Fine Art’s exhibit Bierstadt to Warhol: American Indians in the West, and Masters of the American West Fine Art Exhibition, at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles.

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.

An Award-Winning Artist

Billy Schenck is an award-winning artist whose bold, cinematic approach to Western pop art has earned him international recognition. His work is featured in major museum collections and exhibitions, celebrating his innovative fusion of classic Western imagery with modern artistic techniques.

2014 - Patron Choice Award, "Night of the Artists” The Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio, TX

2014 - 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 America

2013 - U.S. Literary Award for Fine Arts for his book Schenck in the 21st Century: The Myth of the Hero and the Truth of America