Middleburg Community Center ART OF THE PIEDMONT

Nancy Bass 8Portrait of a Spotted PigNANCY BASS is a long-time residentof Charlottesville whose paintingsjuxtapose intimate encounters andmodernist abstraction. Her portraitwork features an exploration of colorand texture-creating amazinglyhuman portrayals of farm animals inabstract fields and settings. Bass’s workhas been exhibited across the countryover the past decade. Her paintingshave been included in numerousjuried exhibitions and acclaimed bynumerous highly regarded curatorialand museum experts. She is amember of the McGuffey Arts Center,an artists’ cooperative in Charlottesville,Virginia and her paintings arefeatured in many noted public andprivate collections in Virginia andbeyond. Bass’s paintings are featuredin the book, How Did You Paint That?100 Ways to Paint the Landscape andher paintings have been finalists inThe Artist’s Magazine’s InternationalCompetition for the past two years.[www.nancybassartists.com]