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Contemporary Mixed Media Visual Artist,w The only female POC 2x TIME magazine cover artist
Lavett Ballard
Born
Lavett Doreen Ore
June 30, 1970
East Orange, NJ
Nationality
American
Education
BA Studio Art & Art History, MFA Studio Art
Alma mater
Rutgers University Camden, University of the Arts Philadelphia
Known for
Mixed Media/ Collage & Art Installation
Website
www.lavettbeart.com
Lavett Ballard (b. 1970) is an American contemporary visual artist based in
Southern New Jersey. Ballard is a
mixed mediacollage artist whose art is viewed as re-imagined visual narratives of people of African descent. Her use of mixed media collage layered imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Women of colors stories within a historical context. Lavett Ballard's work has been commissioned as a cover twice for
Time Magazine first in March 2020 for their special multi cover edition for the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage and in February 2023 for a cover and interior art for
Pulitzer Prize winner
Isabel Wilkerson’s essay about her book CASTE: Origins of our Discontent. Ballard’s artwork has also been used in film, television, and literary publications in addition to being acquired by many private and public institutional collections nationally and internationally. In 2023 she received a NJ State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and in 2024 her art was included in the NAACP Image Award winning Non-Fiction book The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families by Karida L. Brown & Charly Palmer.
Ballard body of work uses collaged photos adorned with paint, oil pastels, handmade papers, and metallic foils. These photos are deconstructed and layered on reclaimed large and small aged wood fences. The use of fences is a symbolic reference to how fences keep people in and out, just as racial and gender identities can do the same socially. This fusion of wood and photography offers artwork that both explores her southern roots, yet visually speaks volumes to continuing themes within her community. Ballard has expanded her core body of work on wood to include works on paper, sculpture and art Installations.
Exhibitions
2024 Galerie Myrtis- Good Fences’ Neighboring Narratives of the Soul- Baltimore, MD
2023 Projective Eye Gallery/
UNCC- ‘May All your Fences have a Gate’- Charlotte, NC
2023 Philadelphia International Airport- ‘Say a Little Prayer -Philadelphia, PA Terminal C
2023 Delta Arts Center- ‘Re-Imaged Legacy’ - Winston Salem, NC