21st Century Regionalists: The Art of the Next West
May 19, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Regionalism - a popular mid-20th century art movement underscoring how region influences identity - has been declared dead. Likewise Western art, though thriving in popularity has often thought to be a static genre; new art had to mimic the old in order be accepted. But in the new millennium, the definition of Western art has been examined, contested and expanded beyond its once-static geographical and philosophical boundaries. Indeed "the West has become more mythology, than location or history. Artists of both traditional and contemporary sympathies are exploring the new facets of Western art. In so doing, they have created a new west...the next west.
