Anything is Possible Acrylic, 20×10″ I like to think of myself as an optimist. But let’s face it, the world’s a mess. Our mess. But we can turn things around can’t we? Climate change, overpopulation, mass extinctions, you know, all…
Funny how we humans all crave paradise. I’m not talking about any hypothetical paradise beyond the grave either, that always just sounded like a bore to me. No, I’m talking about real, flower scented, bare breasted, warm and sandy, sin-filled,…
On January 11th, 1908 Theodore Roosevelt used the powers granted the President by the Antiquities act to create Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona Territory (Arizona did not become a state until 1914). Using these words, and the stroke of…
Home on the Range for Xmas… and Wilder’s homage to Abbey and O’Keefe: Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at: http://www.wilderarts.com and at the Laughing Raven Gallery 417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona and on facebook: “David…
The Imaginary West We love our myths here in America, and where would our beloved West be without them? After all, reality is complicated; myth is tidy. Here I’ve tried to take on the myth of the cowboy artist, a…
All Dressed Up and No Place to Go There’s a saying out here in the West about faux cowboys, we say they’re all hat and no cattle. Well, this piece is kind of about that, except she’s all…
John DePuy: Let me read you something. It says it all. It’s all I have to say. “Madman and seer–– Painter of the Apocalyptic Volcano. Campañero, I am with you forever in the glorious fraternity of the damned.” Jim Stiles:…
Cowboys and Rednecks I was at a roadside café the other day, listening to this fella’ go on about cowboys and rednecks. To his way of thinking, it seems, there was no difference at all between the two and he…
The Wilder West: The Art and Wit of Dave Wilder Occupy Christmas Occupy Christmas ‘Twas some months before Christmas when all through the Land People took to the streets with signs in their hands. They…