Shay Arick

"Works by Shay Arick are all related to the widely recognized figure of the cowboy, an icon of American Culture that incarnates conventional notions of hyper-masculinity, patriarchy, power, and violence. This symbol is dissected by Arick, closely inspected, and reimagined through its attributes; questioning and criticizing the assumed connotations of the character in popular culture. In Under One´s Hat, we can see a succession of cowboys from famous films looking with the eyes of sexual harassers, while on the floor the skeleton of a foot with a spur indicates how deeply rooted in our culture are the stereotypes that characters like this one represents." Meyken Barreto