Following complaints of cultural appropriation, Modern West Fine Art has stopped representing Western painter Billy Schenck. One SLC artist referred to his artwork as dehumanizing, sexually abusive and stereotypical.
, acknowledged that “the lack of curation with Billy’s last [online] show was a huge mistake on our part. Certainly the correct curation would have provided us with the insight needed to see how the work does not align with our community standards, nor the standards of the gallery.”
In her statement to The Tribune, Stewart said, “we hope the discussions around this experience will enlighten and bring more awareness to needed changes for a more sensitive and fair treatment of Indigenous populations. Those are very big and important issues that cannot be resolved by the gallery, or even the art world alone, but we hope to be able to do our part to rebuild trust with a new, more informed perspective.
, Schenck depicted a woman, terrified of hands holding a rope behind her, and speaking into a phone, “Oh, Jesus! The woke police are here!”, who identifies as white and had recently finished a residency at Modern West, said she thought about her involvement with the gallery — and about educating herself about cultural sensitivities in the art world.
Before Modern West cut ties with Schenck, Shanidiin questioned the gallery’s rhetoric protecting the artist — and noted it took public comments from the Salt Lake City arts community to call out the content of Schenck’s work.
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