Cyrus Walker + Matt Eddmenson
Plastic Spurs
A careful balance of mythology and preservation.
Bozeman, 2020
Cyrus Walker's work reflects and manipulates the mass-produced dime novels and comic books that shaped the themes of the West. The Western art genre is a careful balance of mythology and preservation — Walker's canvases tip that balance on purpose, running the cowboy through CMYK separations, Latin mottoes, and pop-print static.
The West was always a story — these artists just admit it.Matt Eddmenson, who graduated from The Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1999, draws from a range of influences including Cowboy Comics, Pop Art, and the work of Cy Twombly. His works are gatherings and reconfigurations of American imagery and iconography — cowboys, skulls, and rodeo horses — scrawled, collaged and reassembled at intimate scale.
Dime novels, run through the press.
Cyrus Walker reflects and manipulates the mass-produced dime novels and comic books that built the themes of the West. His acrylic-and-oil canvases hold the genre's mythology and its preservation in deliberate tension — pop-print color, halftone static, and a cowboy who knows he's being printed.
Cowboys, skulls, and rodeo horses.
Matt Eddmenson graduated from The Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1999 and draws on Cowboy Comics, Pop Art, and Cy Twombly. His mixed-media works gather and reconfigure American imagery and iconography at an intimate, diaristic scale.