Featured Artist - Clayton Bass
A North Carolina native, Clayton Bass has shown professionally in gallery and museum exhibitions for the past 25 years. His works are represented by galleries in Birmingham and Huntsville, and are in private and corporate collections in six states. Five works are on permanent display at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis Hotel. In 2000 his first New York solo exhibition opened at Space 504 Gallery on Broadway.

Throughout his career, nature has informed his paintings, works on paper and sculptural pieces. The interplay of light and shadow is a recurring theme in his landscape and still life works. Photography plays an important role, serving to capture compositions, light, and details translating into works that evolve beyond the source images.

A graduate of East Carolina University with a B.F.A. in painting and a minor in drawing, he also completed the Empire State College (SUNY) Studio Program in New York City where he apprenticed with abstract expressionist painter Michael Goldberg.

Running parallel with creating art, Bass has enjoyed a 20-year career in the museum profession, beginning in 1989 at the Carlos Museum at Emory University. After seven years as Executive Director of the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, in 2002 he accepted the position of President and CEO of the Huntsville Museum of Art in Alabama.

Bass enjoys living and hiking in the mountains south of Huntsville with his wife, a children's author, and their two teenage children.

          

                    

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