The Other Side of the West:
The Homecoming

The Other Side of the West, an exhibition featuring the works of some the country's best contemporary Western artists, returns to the Phippen Museum after an extremely successful four-year national museum tour. "The Homecoming" will be a show and sale--the first commercial undertaking for this group.

The Other Side of the West "...brings together painters who are working in, of, and about the West in a variety of styles and with widely disparate subject matter. In their own words, they are out to 'massage, twist, tweak, and sometimes shatter' traditional concepts of the art of the West. They are doing this not by parody or takeoff but with a 'sincere embrace of Western and Southwestern iconography.' The artists in this refreshing movement, strong in their own right, have achieved individual fame with Western imagery, yet refuse to be defined or categorized by it. They have no quarrel with other schools of art, rather their message is: the West holds many peoples, much beauty, many paths. This dynamic land with its unique people deserves the best that artists have to give from their own unique visions, beyond tradition and beyond stereotypes." -Charlotte Berney, Cowboys & Indians Magazine