Crested Butte based watercolor & design produced by Zach Bauer daily. Inspired by the West Slope and it’s neighboring landscapes and communities.
The call to create, design, and inhabit the inspiring landscapes comes from living each day in the vast outdoors. Crested Butte’s aesthetic appeal as well as the surrounding areas provides plenty impetus for creation and realization of vision. Each work has a story or moment of clarity behind it: attempting to activate the nature that is the setting for the ideas to form. Zach Bauer has been a resident in Gunnison Valley since 2004, and graduated from Western State University in 2009 with a B.F.A. As an avid snowboarder and mountain biker, he seeks inspiration often through playing with gravity in the immense playground of the valley and surrounding area.
Representation
Redline Gallery, Crested Butte, CO
Terrible Mountain Gallery, Pitkin, CO
A Bar Above, Mount Crested Butte, CO
The Breadery, Crested Butte, CO
Rocky Mountain Biological Lab, Gothic, CO
Curriculum Vitae
ART EDUCATION
Douglas County High, 2003
Western Colorado University, BFA In Sculpture, 2009
INSTRUCTOR RECORD
Watercolor and Wine @ CB Center for the Art 2019-2024
Watercolor & Wine for Crested Butte Wildflower Festival 2024, 2025
Light & Atmosphere Classes for Center for the Arts 2019
300+ Private Instructions 2022-2025
EXHIBITION RECORD
Quigley Gallery Spring 2009, BFA Dual Show
PARAGON GALLERY PEOPLES FAIR 2016, 2022, 2023, 2024
“TABLEAU OF THE LANDSCAPE HUMANE” Solo Exhibition Center for the Arts of Crested Butte, 2018
3 First Fridays on Tennyson BLVD, Denver CO, 2018-2019
BIG HIGH MILE SKY Show, Rialto Theatre, Bozeman, MT, 2021
FREINDS OF FRIENDS, Good Kind of Lost Studio/Gallery, Crested Butte CO, 2022
MAKERS MARKET, Center for the Arts, Crested Butte CO 2022 - 2025
HOLIDAY BAZAAR, Talk of the Town, Crested Butte CO 2021 - 2025
BUTTE SESSIONS, Center for the Arts Crested Butte CO, 2023
CRESTED BUTTE ARTS FEST, Crested Butte, 2023, 2024, 2025
CRESTED BUTTE FOOD & WINE GRAND TASTING/GALA, Crested Butte CO, 2024
ARTS AT ALTITUDE, Frisco CO, 2023 & 2024
HIGHLANDS ART FEST, Denver CO 2024
DURANGO AUTUMN ARTS FEST, Durango CO, 2024
MOTHERROCK GROUP SHOW, Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, CO 2024
“WHAT IF” Solo Exhibition at Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison CO, 2025
ARTS ON THE ROCKIES, Edwards, CO, 2025
RDGEWAY RENDEVOUS, Ridgeway, CO, 2025
CHEESEMAN FALL ARTS INVITATIONAL, Denver, CO, 2025