Nancy Bass: Statement
Nancy Bass’s paintings explore the individual personalities of her farm animals by staging subtle and unexpected dialogues between them and the viewer. Set against bold bands of color or idyllic visions of the Virginia landscape, the scenes reflect on our agrarian past yet disrupt traditional animal painting and seventeenth-century landscape conventions.
Nancy Bass: Biography
For over the last decade, Nancy Bass has exhibited her work across the country, including shows in New Mexico, Virginia, Florida, Wisconsin, and New York. Her paintings have been selected for inclusion in nearly three dozen juried exhibitions, acknowledged for excellence by such curators and museum professionals as Peter Schjeldahl, (Art Critic, New Yorker); Carla Hanzal (Curator of Contemporary Art, Mint Museum of Art); Mark Richard Leach (Director, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art); and Dr. William Hennessey (Director, the Chrysler Museum of Art). She has an upcoming artist residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, a recent solo exhibition at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center, VA (2009), and a forthcoming exhibition at the Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, NE (2010, with catalog). In addition, she has been a renting member of the artist co-op McGuffey Arts Center since 2006.
Bass’s paintings are in a number of select collections, including those of the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, the Capital One Corporation, Richmond, VA, and Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, in addition to numerous private collections in the US: Dallas, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Her paintings have appeared in the juried publication Studio Visit, as well as featured in the books How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Landscapes and Virginia's Cattle Story: The First Four Centuries. Based in Charlottesville, VA, Nancy Bass is represented by McJunkin Gallery, Charleston, WV, Studio Eleven, Lexington, VA, and Nichols Gallery, Barboursville, VA.
