The Steamboat Art Museum is pleased to introduce its current winter exhibition, breaking new ground and bringing a different type of Western art to the region.

“The New West: The Rise of Contemporary Indigenous and Western Art" chronicles the beginnings of this sub-genre in the 1960s and highlights the artists of today who are moving it forward.

Guest curated by Seth Hopkins, Executive Director of the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, Georgia, the exhibition features fresh takes on Indigenous and Western subjects, created by a diverse cross-section of artists.

Billy Schenck

Billy Schenck is a contemporary artist with work in over 40 museum collections and corporate collections that include Sony, IBM, Saatchi and Saatchi, American Airlines and others. His subject matter spans genres from western landscape to cowboy pop. He has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe. He is a World Champion Ranch Sorting winner and the proprietor of the Double Standard Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his home for the past two decades.

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Donna Howell-Sickles

Donna Howell-Sickles has taken the image and idea of the cowgirl beyond charcoal lines and into reality. In the Western art genre, she has been exploring the layers beneath the Cowgirl’s engaging exterior for more than 40 years. Howell-Sickles herself identifies with the self-reliant and hard-working spirit of the cowgirl. In 2007 she was inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame by the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas. Howell-Sickles’ work is a part of the art collections of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, the Booth Western Art Museum, the Tucson Museum of Fine Art, Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West, the C.M. Russell Museum and the National Museum of Wildlife Art.

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Kim Wiggins

Kim Douglas Wiggins’ distinct style and modern vision of the West has made him one of the most recognizable artists in America today. He is acknowledged as one of the creative forerunners behind the current New West Movement and is one of the prominent speakers in the art industry encouraging innovation in Western art. Growing up on a ranch in southern New Mexico, at the age of twelve he was discovered by an art dealer from Scottsdale who started handling his formative work. By the mid 1970’s he was painting in oil and working as a graphic artist for a national equine magazine. In 1983 he was admitted as the youngest member of the Society of American Impressionists and exhibited alongside American masters such as Robert Daughters, Walt Gonske and Sandy Scott.

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Maeve Eichelberger

Maeve Eichelberger is a Colorado native. Inspired by formal design elements; Line, Shape, Color, Texture and Space, Maeve uses her photography, drawing and collage as mediums to support her sculptural exploration. Hand etching, and forming her sculptures with heat, she uses Plexiglass as a material for its modern, durable and transparent qualities, allowing her to explore layers more deeply. “I create multiple layers of experience that demonstrates the significance of observing life both sequentially and simultaneously”.

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Sandy Graves

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Available Artwork for Purchase from “The New West"