In Marfa, an art destination with few artist residencies, one curator is turning a historic home into a hub for creatives:
“Initially, the image I had in mind was purely the cinema cowboy—John Wayne,” Cotton said. “But this was a working rodeo. These aren’t show cowboys, they are ranch hands performing really complex tasks.”Photographs he took of the cowboys at work formed the basis for a new series of paintings, now on view by appointment at the Brite House, pairing cowboys with unicorns painted in the artist’s signature saccharine pink.
“It’s combining the mythology of the American West cowboy gunslinger with this pink unicorn, which is these days really the domain of young girls,” Cotton added. “I wanted to force the feminine, even though paradoxically the unicorn has this very long phallic horn and is this very androgynous beast.”As the Brite Force initiative grows, Force Villareal hopes to expand the residency beyond the visual arts to include poetry, writing, and music.
“I want to build a relationship with the artist and our family and the local community in Marfa,” Force Villareal said. She may ultimately work with a curator to help select residents; around five artists will be invited each year.Her own relationship with the city dates to 1998, when she and Villareal visited his family during their engagement.
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