Popular culture has defined the cowboy by his riding boots, fringed leather pants, acute smoking habit, large bushy mustache, and stone-cold demeanor. Artists and filmmakers have queered, weirded, diversified, and transformed the macho cowboy into an icon for their communities.
The artists in Weird West at Hashimoto Contemporary depict surreal landscapes, symbolic Western figures, and themes of family heritage, love, and grief, merging their own stories and cultures with the Western genre iconography.
Together, the artists reinterpret the icons of the American past to visualize a future reflective of their diverse realities, blending the traditional tough cowboy image with themes of tenderness, family connections, and personal histories.
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