NANCI FRANCE-VAZ: " Soleil Sur La Mer " Sea Oil Painting On Linen Custom Framed 

Measures : 18 x 14 image; 24 x 19 Framed

Signature : Signed lower right

Condition: Painting very good.  

Shipping: $25

Nanci France-Vaz

The artist was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to the UWS in Manhattan in 2002 to study portrait and figurative art. She was the recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship Award and earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 3D Computer Animation for Film and Special Effects.

France-Vaz has exhibited at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern European Art for ModPortrait and first round of Figurativas,  Abend Gallery, Principle Gallery, Lovetts Gallery, Eisele Gallery, Butler Insitute of Fine Art, National Arts Club NYC, and Salmagundi Club NYC. She has had 3 solo shows. 

Nanci France-Vaz has won  of many notable awards nationally. She is the recipient of the prestigious Len G Everett Memorial Award, Joseph Hartley Memorial Award, John Collins Award, Colonel George J Morales Award, PSOA 3rd Place , ARC Salon, International Artists People & Figures 2021, and Best in Show Portrait Award, Petite Gallery. 

The most recent paintings are from The Bohemian Spirits series. The concepts are based on a moment in time, classical literature, film, and poetry, introducing a modern subject or twist to her story. Her intent is to combine hope, spiritual beliefs, and the human condition. Most of her models are professional musicians, artists, actors, and dancers.  The spiritual, the mystical, and the mythical have underlying tones and meanings left for the beholder to ponder and engage psychologically. Having studied film and Stanislavski Method Acting allows for a spiritual connection to her subjects expressing emotion and mood. Her study of lighting and movement, through acting, dance, and theater is the catalyst for creating a still image from a cinematic process.  France-Vaz's patterns of life express a life experience or moment of thought in time. 

France-Vaz has been published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, ModPortrait 2020,  International Artists, Realism Today, ARC Salon, and Leonardo Guide Artelibre 2021,

Her paintings and commissions hang in private collections. 

 Curriculum Vitae

2012-present- Nanci France-Vaz Fine Art/The Asbury Park Atelier of Art

Commissioned portrait/figurative painter of Contemporary & Classical realism.

2016-present- Ducret School of Art-Faculty Instructor/Workshops

Classical and Contemporary Portrait/Figure Painting and drawing. Combined Phtography training using a DSLR high end camera for references.

2010-2016- The Art Guild, Shrewesbury, NJ

Fine Art Instructor of portrait/figurative painting and drawing of Classical/Contemporary Realism combining photography for reference.

2010-present- Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ

Fine Art Instructor of portrait/figurative painting and drawing of Classical/Contemporary Realism, Art History lectures, painting/photography workshops

2002- 2003- James Child's Studio / Drawing Academy of the Atlantic- NYC, NY

Studio assistant to Mr. Child's for painting commissions and privateStudy of the Bargue method from the French Academy.

Education:

2006-2007- McCormack Studios

Private portrait Lessons with Paul W. McCormack

 2002-2007- Grand Central Academy- NYC

Portrait/Figure painting/ drawing in style of Academic Classical Realism

2001-2007- The Art Students League- NYC

Figure/Portrait painting – Nelson Shanks , Michael Grimaldi

2001-2002-The New York Academy of Art- NYC

Portrait/Figurative drawing and painting- Dan Thompson

2001-2001-The Water Street Atelier-Brooklyn,NY Figure/Portrait drawing, Dan Thompson

1992-1997- School of Visual Arts

BFA – 3d Computer Animation for Film and Special Effects, Classical Portrait/Figure Painting with John Frederick Murray, and Marvin Mattelson

Awards:

Best In Show, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art

Len G. Everett Memorial Award, Allied Artists of America

International Artists People & Figures #22, 2021

Honorable Mention, BlueReview Artprize, Sugarlift

Best in Show, Huntington Arts Portrait Exhibition

John Collins Memorial Award, AAPL NYC

George J. Morales Memorial Award, AAPL NYC

Joseph Hartley Memorial Award, Salmagundi Non Member Open Painting,, Sculpture, Graphics Exhibit

3rd Place Portrait Society of America Members Showcase 

Honorable Mention, Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists Annual Portrait Exhibit

Gateway International Competition, the Artists Choice Award

Exhibitions:

2022- Salon des Refuses, WMOCA

2022- ModPortrait 2021

2021- BlueReview Artprize Artsy exhibition, Sugarlift Gallery, NYC

2021- Animalia Exhibition, Abend Gallery, Denver 

2021-108th Allied Artists of America Annual Exhibit, Salmagundi Club, NYC

2021- ARC Salon 15th Annual Exhibit-, Finalist in Figurative and Imaginative Realism

2021-ModPortrait 2020- 8th Annual Exhibition, Finalist, MEAM Museum, Barcelona, Spain

2021-Radical Botanicals Exhibit, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, Ok

2020-IGOR 15th Annual Exhibit, Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC

2020-Small Works Exhibition, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK 

2020- Duets Exhibition, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, Ok

2019-Enigma Exhibition, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, Ok

2019-Abend Gallery 5x5 Project, Denver, Co

2019- Open Painting, Sculpture, graphics Open Non-member Exhibit, Salmagundi Club, NY 

2019-ARC Finalist Figurative Category

2019-Allied Artists of America, Finalist, Salmagundi Club

2018-Gallery at Zhou B Art, Artsy Online Gallery, featured artists

2018-28^th Annual Holiday Miniature show, Abend Gallery, Denver, Co

2018-Gateway International Competition

2018- Allied Artists of America 105^th Annual Juried Exhibit, Salmagundi Club NYC

2017- Boldbrush Painting Contest March, April/July?September/October FAV15% finalist

2017- ARC 13^th Annual Salon, finalist Figurative Category

2017- Rhapsodies of Life, Solo exhibit, Swains Gallery, Plainfiled, NJ

2017-9^th Annual Figurative Exhibit, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, Pa 

2017-Oil Painters of America National Exhibit, Finalist, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh

2016- Allied Artists of America 103 Annual Show, Len G Everett Memorial Award, NY

2016-PSOA finalist for 2 categories- Out of the Box & Non Commissioned Portrait

2016- ARC Salon 2016, Finalist

2016- Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibit, Finalist, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Oh

2016- HVAA Annual Juried Show finalist, Salmagundi Club, NYC

2015-Catherine Lorillard Wolfe 119^th Annual Juried Show, National Arts Club, NYC

2015-American Artists Professional League 87^th Grand National Show, Salmagundi Club, NYC

2015- American Woman Artists, finalist, Juried Show

2015- Francesca Anderson Fine Art Gallery, Annual Portrait Exhibit

2014- AAPL 86^th Grand National Show, The Colonel George J Morales Award for Rebel. Rebel

2014- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Portrait of Lloyd Price, Cleveland, Ohio

2014- Women Painting Women International Exhibit, Principle Gallery, Charleston, SC

2013- Women Painting Women Exhibit, Gallery U, Westfield, NJ

2013-Allied Artists of America 100^th Anniversary Juried show, finalist, National Arts Club, NY

2012-Love and Observed Group Exhibit, Hersch Fine Art Gallery

2012-Art Renewal Center International Salon 2011-2012, finalist in Figurative Category

2011-Art Renewal Center International Salon 2010-2011, finalist in Figurative Category

2011-ACOPAL National Juried Show, Top 100 finalists USA

2009-Huntington Arts “Masters Show”, 3 Man Show, Petite Gallery, Huntington, NY

2009-Huntington Arts Portrait Juried show, Petite Gallery, Huntington, NY

2009-Portrait Society of America

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