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Zingaro has emerged as the foremost artist in the ancient art of vitreous enamel. A process that dates back to the Mycenaean era, glass is fused with metal to create vibrant and elusive plays of light and color. Using strong compositional skills the “tiles” are then mounted on a panel rapped with either brass or copper.

He has followed in the path of master enamellists Fred Ball and Graig Ruwe. Zingaro worked close with Ruwe as his assistant in the art community of Madrid , NM . Today he takes the process further. Brighter colors, more intense imagery and museum quality pieces separate Zingaro from his predecessors and colleagues.

Collectors from around the world enjoy these vitreous enamel masterworks.

Zingaro’s acclaimed artwork is on display in many galleries in the USA and in Berlin Germany .

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The technique of vitreous enameling traces back 3300 years to the island of Cyprus. Six gold rings found in a Mycenaean tomb are the first know craft of glass molten to metal.

Enameling has taken various forms over the centuries, from the French Limoges technique to cook pots of the Industrial Revolution. It was in the early 1970’s that the experiments of Fred Uhl Ball, the son of a silversmith and a ceramicist, took the process to a higher level. Ball adapted classical techniques of enameling to the Japanese Raku process to create masterful and sizeable hanging art.

Upon Ball’s death in 1985, he passed his legacy on to his colleague, Craig Ruwe. From Ruwe’s New Mexico studio, he created intriguing variations of Ball’s two-dimensional art form, bringing to fruition the nuances sought by Ball in his fired glass and metal.

Here in New Mexico, Ruwe met the artist Zingaro who worked in oils, acrylic and steel. Zingaro was immediately engaged by the freedom of this unique medium. Before Ruwe passed away in 2004, he asked Zingaro to mentor the process, continuing the heritage of innovation he and Ball had begun.

The works of Zingaro seek to capture the legacy of Ball and Ruwe in his play of color and light that streams from the panels. Within Zingaro's prolific body of work, one can witness and enjoy the expanding envelope of creativity offered by this rare and magnificent art form.