Bruce Backer & Vanessa Backer
The collaborative art by this husband and wife blends porcelain and crystal with fallen trees and lighting creating sculptures that are spiritual, powerful, whimsical, and sometimes sensual. Many of their pieces explore the tension between human values and the natural world.
Andy Nasisse
We are presenting the sculptural work of renowned artist and Professor Emeritus Andy Nasisse. These figurative landscapes seem to emerge from the clay. The stories the work tells are mysterious, thought provoking and might even put a smile on your face. Independent studio artist, now living in Ridgway. Taught art at University of Georgia, Colorado native, numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums, solo exhibitions are scheduled in 2024 for Sangre de Cristo fine arts center and The Crested Butte Center For The Arts.
Emma Kalff
In 2020, Emma took a road trip across the U.S and made a series of paintings, which resulted in her first solo show in Telluride, Colorado. After that, her work was featured in Southwest Art magazine's "21 Under 31: Young Artists to Collect Now". Emma’s work has since been featured in American Art Collector, Studio Visit magazine, and Fine Art Connoisseur.
Fred Burns
This Taos artist is known for his insistence on always working from a live model. His Fantasy Nudes and Portraits shown in the exhibit at Rootwings Art often stage the model amid glimmers of artworks from past centuries. “My aim is not to copy great works of art but to restage them,” Burns explains. “When I pose the model in a way that evokes a painting from a past era, it enables me to enter another historical space, not realistically, but imaginatively.”
