Exhibitions

2019
“Local Colors”, Private Moments in Public Spaces, Hillside Square, Montclair, NJ

“Cafe Series”, Local Coffee, Montclair, NJ

2008
“Two Views” two-person show, BrassWorks, Montclair, NJ

2006
Womanly Gestures, The Energetic Works Of Fern Bass, Westminster Gallery, Bloomfield College, NJ (SOLO)

2005
The Moving Line, Selected Works, B’nai Jeshrun Gallery, Short Hills, NJ (SOLO)

Artist::Mentor, Miriam Beerman And Her Students, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ

Figurative Works, The Energetic Connection, Montclair Public Library, Montclair, NJ (SOLO)

The Truth Show, Gallery 214, Montclair, NJ

2004
Works Of A Spiritual Nature, Union Congregational Church, Montclair, NJ (SOLO)

2003
The Black And White Show, WAM Annual Exhibit, Nandi Gallery, Montclair, NJ

Ashes To Ashes, Contemplating Everyday Mortality, Ramapo Library, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

Reality Check, Nandi Gallery, Montclair, NJ

Selected Works, Works On Paper (art fair), London, England

2002
The Insomnia Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ

2001
The Insomnia Show, Organization For Independent Artists, New York, NY

Inspired By Grief, A Painterly Memorial, Galen Art Gallery, Lautenberg Family JCC, Whippany, NJ (SOLO)

2000
Rapt, Fredrick Clement Gallery, Montclair, NJ (SOLO)

No Word For Inhumanity, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
25th Annual New Members Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ

Bowery Gallery National Juried Competition 2000, Joan Snyder, Juror.  Bowery Gallery, New York, NY

Spring Salon Show, Fredrick Clement Gallery, Montclair, NJ

Projected Visions 2000, Montclair State University Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ

1999
Holiday Invitational Show, Fredrick Clement Gallery, Montclair, NJ

1998
No Word For Inhumanity, Westminster Gallery, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ

 

Private Collections

Deborah Garrison
Amy Gladstone
Sarah Bentley
Marcia Marley and Peter Rappaport
Bob and Rhonda Silver, New Jersey
Wendy and Jack Finn, New Jersey
Mary Birmingham, New Jersey
Gail Casale and John Priber, New York
David and Bonnie Cushing, New Jersey
Steven De Geronimo, New Jersey
David Dubrow, New Jersey
Susan and Marion Green, New Jersey
Jeff and Aggie Kushner, New Jersey
Murphy Long, New Jersey
Dr. Aaron Back and Beth Sandweiss, New Jersey
Shelley Seidenstein, New Jersey
Ina and Ron Denburg, New Jersey
Paul Weingarten, New Jersey
Debra Dunn, New Jersey
Katherine Beckwith, New Jersey
Kirsten Stingle, New Jersey
Nancy Gerber, New Jersey
Dr. Mark and Carol Weibman, New York

 

 

Selected Bibliography

”Portraits By Fern Bass At Gaelen Gallery”, The Montclair Times, February 8, 2001

Dan Bischoff, “Memorial Sight”, The Star Ledger, February 8, 2001

Video: “Let’s Draw” Interviews With Four Artists, Montclair Cable Channel 34, Fall 2002

Dan Bischoff, “Artists Express Themselves In Montclair”, The Star Ledger, March 1, 2003

Elizabeth Ludas, “Exaltation Of The Human Face”, The Montclair Times, September 9, 2003

Shoshana Walter, “A Day On At Rand”, The Montclair Times, January 20, 2005

Kathy Gilligan, “A Sort Of Homecoming”, Suburban Essex Magazine, March 2005

Joan Finn, “Montclair To Welcome Giant Puppet At First Night Fete” December 22, 2005

Joan Finn, “The Energetic Art Of Montclair’s Fern Bass”, Montclair Times March 30, 2006

Annette Batson, “Made In Montclair”, Barista, September 14, 2006

Allison Freeman, “Fashion Forward”, The Star Ledger, January 3, 2007

Phoebe Lytle, “A Young Artist In Residence”, the Montclair Times, July 19, 2007Fern Bass, an artist who loves teaching art, the Montclair Times, June 26, 2008