Rooted

There are the things we carry in our hands…things we carry from one place to another... things we carry because they are useful, beautiful, familiar, or difficult to leave behind…and then, there are the things we carry that cannot be held at all. – Carrie The gallery becomes a place of arrival and exchange. This new collection by Carrie Fell plays with the many meanings of carried as remembered objects, stories, history, and inheritance. The works weave together the spirit of historic Southwestern Road trips with their subtle nuances of place, memory, and passage. This exhibition imagines the gallery as a place of arrival and exchange. This collection invites collectors to slow down and take notice, to look closely at the overlooked fragments that might otherwise pass quietly by. Through her new series, Carrie Fell transforms fragments of memory, texture, color, and Western vernacular into rare, small-scale compositions that feel intimate, collected, and deeply considered. Their scale creates a different kind of encounter: personal enough to live closely with, yet rich enough to reveal something new over time. For collectors, this special series offers an opportunity to acquire works that are both distinctive and limited in their visual language, small pieces carrying a larger story of passage, memory, and the enduring pull of the American West. For "Rooted," a Post trader stands within the landscape with a quiet confidence that requires no announcement. His presence is contemporary, yet tradition moves through him, woven into land, family, memory, faith, and seasons lived. He does not appear caught between past and present. They exist together. And close within his heart is Mother Mary, not as a distant figure, but as a quiet presence carried within him, a source of faith and protection as he moves through the world. Around him, the exhibition is full of knowing what he carries. Tradition does not live in the distance, and nothing is entirely left behind. Everything becomes part of the road. Available exclusively at Galerie Züger Santa Fe. Click here to inquire.