Liz Chappie Zoller
Three Forks, MT
Exhibit Year: 2022-2023
About the Artist
Liz Chappie-Zoller is a contemporary equine artist whose Pearl Snap Studio is located in a remote Missouri River valley north of Three Forks MT. She grew up in the Midwest, where she rode horses and earned a BFA in Studio Art. Career experience includes work as a technical and a medical illustrator, freelance and commercial artist, graphic designer, and a 9-year professorship for the Interior Design Program at MT State University. Currently and for the past eight years, Liz has coached an NEA-recognized business development course for visual artists, sponsored by the Montana Arts Council.
Chappie-Zoller is an Officier Académicienne at Mondial Art Academie in Aimargues, France, a member of the American Association of Equine Art, and an Associate member of Oil Painters of America, and American Women Artists. Her work is shown at Livingston Center for Art and Culture (MT), Tendoy Gallery (MT), online at MondialArtAcademie.com, and at PearlSnapStudio.com.
Artist Statement
Liz Chappie-Zoller is a contemporary equine artist, whose art explores the overlapping edges of diverse cultures, using a unique combination of rural working horses of the American West – ranch, rodeo, and Indian Relay race horses – mashed up with urban graffiti she collects (benches) from trains passing through the remote Missouri River valley of her Montana home.
Her art is inspired by ranch, rodeo, and Indian Relay racehorses, (a sport found only in the Pacific Northwest honoring the Native American warrior culture), embellished with traditional war paint and symbolic colors, and mashed-up with graffiti on backgrounds inspired by traditional and historic Native American weaving patterns.