Zingaro's passion for art emerged while apprenticing for an aging painter in the village of Hyannis, Massachusetts.  The painter gave Zingaro his kaleidoscopic philosophy of form, color, and motion.  As a young man, Zingaro traveled widely, arriving in New Mexico in 1979.  The clear light and opalescent sunsets drew him to remain.  It is here that he met and befriended the late Craig Ruwe, master enamel artist, whose career dates back two decades to the period of the great Fred Uhl Ball, with whom Ruwe had apprenticed.

Ruwe introduced Zingaro to the ancient art of glass on metal--vitreous enamel.  The depth and light of the medium engaged Zingaro's creative eye.  Zingaro assisted Ruwe in his work for two years until Craig passed away in the spring of 2004.

Today, following in the paths of Ball and Ruwe, Zingaro pursues the evolution of this mesmerizing medium in his New Mexico studios.  The vitreous enamel piece begins as a series of thin waves of metal, usually copper or brass, over which images are dusted in finely ground glass.  As the layers encounter their first kiln firing, they take on a shimmering radiance to sustain the imagery to come.

Layer upon layer of glass is then delicately introduced and fired to the tile, each one blending its own vibrancy to the one before.  Like a fingerprint, the tile takes on a unique gradation and refraction of light.  The temperaments of color coerce one another to an excited balance of harmony and contrast as the firing continues.  Each finished piece is an inimitable collage of images, an endlessly enjoyable discovery in timeless art.