Good Cowboy, Bad Cowboy (Our Guide Jack), 2006
acrylic on stereoview card, 7" x 3.5"
courtesy the artist and Birch Libralato
estimate $900 framed
Mitch Robertson is a conceptually based artist who uses photography, video, sculpture, the Internet, installations and drawing in his works. 'Good Cowboy, Bad Cowboy' is one of three antique stereoview scenes of the Old West used in a series of work that examines the depiction of good and evil in early Western films, and the collective nostalgia for the Old West that resulted. The cowboy image, normally made three dimensional when viewed through a stereoscope, is instead divided into two personas through the use of the classic Hollywood trope of white depicts good while bad guys don black.
With over sixty exhibitions since 1998, Robertson has shown regularly across Canada and New Zealand as well as in the USA, Switzerland, N. Ireland, England, Germany, Scotland and Australia in public, artist run and commercial galleries. His work has been covered in numerous magazines and newspapers as well as on radio, TV and talk shows.
