Breckenridge Gallery – Over 50 Years of Art in Breckenridge
Summit County’s longest running fine art gallery invites you to fall deeply in love
by Lisa Blake
When a piece of art speaks to you, it practically jumps off the wall. Your eyes light up, lips part and corners of the mouth draw upward, your heart or stomach may even flutter a bit. There’s a certainty, a recognition, a page of your story that has just been written—it’s a lot like falling in love.
Breckenridge Gallery owner Antonio Pacheco has seen that look time and again.
“Someone will walk into the gallery and stop in their tracks, look at the wall and say, ‘yep, that’s the one,’” Pacheco says. “When you see that moment in someone’s eyes, it’s special.”
The Colorado native and former Starz Entertainment program planning and scheduling vice president took over the Main Street gallery in April 2024. After 20 years in the television industry, Pacheco says he realized he wanted to do something more for himself. On the hunt for either an art gallery or a fly fishing shop (the latter eliciting a strong veto from his wife, Wendy), he made an offer on Breckenridge Gallery.
“I’ve always loved small art galleries,” Pacheco says. “We’d be on vacation in Santa Fe, Maui, Phoenix, and I’d drag my family to the local art gallery. My kids always hated it.”
Today, Pacheco splits time between Denver suburb Parker and Breckenridge, running the two-level gallery and filling its white well-lit walls with acrylic and oil paintings, hand-welded pieces, bronze sculptures, woodworkings and more by impressionist, contemporary and abstract artists. Most of the gallery’s artists are either from Colorado or have strong ties to the state.
The gallery’s ambiance is crisp and clean with a warm, welcoming glow. Guests find a wide range of Western-inspired fine art and top-selling mountain landscape paintings alongside stainless steel abstract works from local coal mining welder turned artist Levi Larkin and Littleton artist Melissa Cooper’s bronze song birds. Pacheco calls the gallery’s aesthetic a crossroads between nature and culture, where rugged wilderness meets refined creativity.
After extensive training from the previous gallery owners—Pacheco is only the third owner in the gallery’s 50-plus-year history—the father of two chats up gallery guests with ease, helping them find artwork that evokes emotional connection.
If you see something you like, Pacheco will bring more of that artist’s work out from the back so you can find the one. He’s even gone as far as to bring five paintings to an indecisive couple’s new Breckenridge home, hanging each above the fireplace so they could select the one that looked just right. That couple returns often to fill more of their home with Breckenridge Gallery works and sends visiting friends in to see Pacheco.
“I’m not selling art,” Pacheco says. “I’m just trying to connect people with things they love.”
124 S. Main Street, Breckenridge
Publishers Note ~ The diversity of this gallery’s offering is astounding. We have found so many beautiful works of art that complement our many publications. We discovered artist, Perry Brown, whose Oil Painting, Breckenridge Main Street, became our winter/spring 2024/25 cover and recently discovered artist Joe McKay who’s art became a closing image for Mountain Town Magazine. I am in love with the river otters, cast in bronze and displayed in the gallery today! A must visit while in Breckenridge.
~ Holly Battista-Resignolo, publisher
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