Kendall Pace Art
El Jefe
2026, 36" x 60" recycled aluminum cans on board
Sold, Private Collection, Colorado
The Texas Longhorn's bloodline goes back to Spanish cattle brought to the New World in 1493. Over the centuries the breed survived the South Texas brush country and became a symbol of Texas and the American West. El Jefe, "the boss," stands square to the viewer, horns spanning nearly the full five feet of the panel, under a wide blue sky.
He's built from thousands of hand-cut fragments drawn from hundreds of recycled cans. His copper and rust coat comes from orange sodas and craft beers, and his sky from shades of blue cans. Up close, you'll find logos, barcodes and torn lettering. From across the room, you'll find the boss.
2026 · 48" x 36" · Recycled aluminum cans on board
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Exhibited: Unbridled, A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art, Trinidad, CO, 2026
Tens of millions of American bison once roamed from the Great Plains into northern Mexico, shaping the prairies and sustaining Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Hunted nearly to extinction, they have come back from the edge to become a symbol of resilience across the West. I challenged myself to build this bison from a four-color palette: two blues for depth, then orange (blue's opposite on the color wheel) and yellow for a glowing sunset behind him.
Bucking Bronco
2026 · 50" x 50" framed · Recycled aluminum cans on board
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Bronc riding was born on the working ranches of the American West, where cowboys broke wild horses, and it became the classic event of the rodeo. I made this piece to start 2026, the Year of the Fire Horse, drawing on a lifetime of loving horses, from the plastic ones I played with instead of dolls to the thrill of the Houston Rodeo. Rider and horse explode against a glowing dusk sky, built from countless bright scraps of metal that catch the light differently as you move, like the wild ride itself.
El Charro
2026 · 36" x 48" · Recycled aluminum cans on board
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For centuries, Mexican charros carried the arts of ranching, roping, and horsemanship from the haciendas of Jalisco into what is now Texas and the American Southwest. Their tradition, charrería, is the ancestor of the American cowboy; anyone who has ever swung a lasso learned from it, whether they knew it or not. This piece honors that lineage and the bond at its heart: a horseman and the horse he trusts, standing together in the quiet moment before or after the ride.
Quanah Parker
2026 · 48" x 36" · Recycled aluminum cans on board
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For more than 150 years, the Comanche controlled an empire across the Southern Plains, out-riding and out-fighting Spain, Mexico, Texas, and the United States, and building the horse culture the American cowboy inherited. Quanah, son of a Comanche chief and the captive Cynthia Ann Parker, held out longer than anyone, surrendering in 1875, then built a second life as a cattle rancher and Washington negotiator who kept his braids and his ways. Before there was Texas, there was Comancheria.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
2025 · 48" x 36" · Recycled aluminum cans and oil on board
Sold, Private Collection, Texas
In 1531, near Mexico City, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, an Indigenous peasant. As proof for a doubting bishop, she sent him to gather roses that were out of season in his cloak. When he opened it, the roses fell away to reveal her image on the cloth, which still hangs in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe today. My version surrounds her with those roses, built from hundreds of cut cans and set inside a painted arch, the only paint in the piece.
Clint Eastwood
2025 · 72" x 48" · Recycled aluminum cans on board
Sold, Private Collection, Utah
In the spaghetti westerns of the 1960s, Clint Eastwood became the face of the lone Western hero: quiet, stoic, all grit. Working from a vintage image from those films, I built this portrait at six feet tall, my largest work to date, to match the scale of the legend. It was the piece that confirmed my direction, and the West has been my focus ever since.