Come See 21st Century Regionalists: Art of the New West

The Booth Museum invites you to see our newest temporary exhibition“21st Century Regionalists: Art of the New West” which will be on display until April 13. The exhibition features 70 pieces of art by more than a dozen of today’s most well known Western artists who use a variety of mediums and artistic styles to portray the modern West of today.

“21st Century Regionalists: Art of the New West” is the Booth Museum’s first invitational art exhibition. After requesting and reviewing the portfolios of nearly 100 artists, 14 men and women were chosen to be featured in the exhibition. The artists include sculptors Rebecca Tobey, Mark Yale Harris and Josh Tobey, as well as painters Trish Booth, Josh Elliott, Woody Gwyn, Elaine Holien, Tricia Higgins Hurt, Louisa McElwain, Howard Post, Ed Sandoval, Doug Smith, Gary Earnest Smith, and Jim Vogel.

The artists highlighted in the exhibition have their roots in regionalist tradition, but also have created their own distinctive works using a modernistic style. Like the regionalists of the mid-20th century, they celebrate rural life, ordinary people, and simplicity.

“The exhibit is organized around a central theme, it questions who is a Western artist, what is Western art, and what do the terms regionalism and contemporary mean for us today,” said Booth Museum Executive Director Seth Hopkins. “It highlights artists whose work has its roots in the Regionalist traditions of the 1930s but also employ a contemporary style.”

For more information on the “21st Century Regionalists: Art of the New West” exhibit, please contact the Booth Museum at 770-387-1300 or visit http://www.boothmuseum.org/.

© Gary Ernest Smith, Tractor with Purple Barn, oil on linen, 2006, 24x36"

© Howard Post, Outbound, oil on canvas, 2006, 18x36"

© Josh Elliott, Wilsall Highrise, oil on canvas, 2007, 24x30"