COLORY SERIES



This new series of paintings represents an exploration of a new color palette and various means of paint application and mark making. The paintings are abstract in approach and built up in layers over a period of time. Always there is an overriding concern with color, texture, structure and composition—versus the intuitive and spontaneous. Ideally the end result is a balance between this spontaneity and studied discipline. -Nancy Hartsfield

BIOGRAPHY
Nancy Hartsfield was a highly respected professor at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, for close to 35 years educating and mentoring thousands of art students. She authored and received numerous grants, including a matching grant from Apple Computer (with her colleague John Morgan) which initiated the first Apple Computer Lab and computer design classes at Auburn. Earlier in her career, before focusing much of her attention on the emerging computer graphics technology, she participated in numerous regional and national group and juried shows, a practice to which she plans to return. She has acted as an advocate for the arts in many regional and community organizations and given of her time to speak to groups from elementary level to professional organizations and to jury regional shows and exhibitions. She currently serves as vice-chairperson for the Board of DesignAlabama, Inc., as well as Art Director on the DesignAlabama Journal and other print work for the organization. Nancy has also worked with the Alabama State Council on the Arts as a design consultant for the development of several publications and the council's current logo. For four years before her retirement she served as interim head of the Art Department at Auburn. During this time she was successful in implementing a complete renovation of Biggin Hall (the art building) at Auburn University, including the construction of a new sculpture and ceramic facility. Professor Hartsfield was also a long and active advocate for an art museum at Auburn University and served as co-chair of the Building Committee for the new Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art which opened October 2003. Presently she serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board for the museum.

1963 Bachelor of Visual Design, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
1965 Master of Fine Arts/Painting and Printmaking Auburn University, Auburn Alabama
1966 Postgraduate Study in Art History and HumanitiesFlorida State University, Tallahassee, Florida