Lavett Ballard
Lavett Ballard is an Artist, Art historian, Curator, and Author. She hold a dual Bachelor’s in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University, she also has an MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Ballard’s art has been commissioned as a cover for Time Magazine special Woman of the Year double edition released March 2020. Among her accolades she is a Yaddo Artist residency recipient for 2020. Been nominated for a Pew Foundation residency and named by Black Art in America as one of the Top 10 Female Emerging Artists to Collect. Ballard’s work has been in film productions and exhibited at galleries and museums nationwide.
Ballard views her art as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. Her use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Black women’s stories within a historical context. Her current body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on reclaimed large and small aged wood fences.
Exhibition: “Stories My Grandmother Told Me”
This is the first short film from the series Black Arts Speak, produced by Dr. Tanisha Jackson. In this video, the New Jersey-based artist discusses how her summer visits down South to her family farm and listening to her Grandmother's stories about historical events that deeply impacted the African American community, influences her art making process. These experiences inspired the creation of the exhibit, Stories My Grandmother Told Me (2021).
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood
36 x 48 x 2
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood
16 x 20 x 2
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017
24x 36
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017
74 x 77
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017
74 x 77
Installation Mixed Media, 2016
6 x 4
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017
6 x 4
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2017
71 x48
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018
71 x48
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018
11x14
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood
36x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
37x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
71 x41
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
71 x53
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood
Collage Mixed Media on wood slices, 2020
12 x16
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
16x12
Collage. Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
11x14
Collage. Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood
30x40
Collage/ Mixed Media on Birchwood Panel, 2020
30x40
Collage/ Mixed Media on Birchwood Panel, 2020
30x40
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
37x40
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2020
30x40
Collaged/ Mixed Media on Hand carved Birchwood Panel, 2020
37x25
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2018
68x37
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2020
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood
30x24
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2019
48x24
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2019
24x36
Mixed Media/Collage on reclaimed wood, 2016
24x36
Collage/ Mixed Media on Hand carved Birchwood Panel, 2018
24x36
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2021
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood
24x36
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood fencing, 2021
16x12
Mixed Media/ Collage on reclaimed wood, 2021
11x13
Collage/Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
16x12
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
10x8
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
16x20
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
11x14
Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slice, 2020
Installation comprised of Collage/ Mixed Media on Wood Slices from The Quarantine Chronicles, 2021
Installation, 2021
For more information about Lavett Ballard visit the following site:
Website: https://www.lavettbeart.com
Lavett Ballard is currently Co-Represented by both :Long Sharp Art Gallery- (Indianapolis, IN)
and; Galerie Myrtis- (Baltimore, MD)
