Piece by Piece: S "My enthusiasm seems to have helped get really established artists to participate in a new gallery.” – Patie Schoonover
22 • Volume 16, Edition 1, 2022
choonover Gallery, a sleek contemporary gallery that opened last winter on Lincoln Avenue, fills a muchneeded niche in the thriving Steamboat Springs art scene. The gallery features work by nationally renowned artists who specialize in what owner Patie Schoonover describes as “mountain contemporary with a little modern West mixed in.” A quick look is not enough at this new endeavor of Patie and her husband, Ray, who moved from Durango to open the gallery. The real delight is walking from piece to piece with Patie, whose knowledge of the artists and their stories brings the work to life. One example is artist Nocona Burgess, who is the greatgreat-grandson of revered Comanche Chief Quanah Parker. Burgess, a member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, primarily shows his work in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But when Patie began researching his background, she found a mutual six-degrees-of-separation ancestor, and told him, “You have to
