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Lavett BallardSitting with the Shadows: framed painting w/ photos, Black African American art2022
2022
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This is a large, framed acrylic painting with collaged photographs, gold leaf, metallic paint, and other mixed media. Is it by artist Lavett Ballard, who is the first Black woman to have her art featured on the cover of Time Magazine, first in March 2020 for their special multi-cover edition for the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage, and again in February 2023 for Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s essay about her book, CASTE: Origins of our Discontent.
Ballard's work focuses on the role of Black women in the US, including the obstacles they have encountered, the achievements they have made, and the memories they have stored. In addition to creating her compositions on traditional fine art surfaces, Ballard often uses reclaimed wooden fences as a support for her work, as a symbolic reference to how fences can keep people both in and out, just as racial and gender identities can do the same. In Ballard’s work, Black women throughout history appear as embodiments of grace, wisdom, and quiet perseverance, and are depicted as inheritors of our honor and respect. By re-inserting historic photographs into contemporary contexts and hand-embellishing them with a range of materials – metallic foils, abstract prints, burns – Ballard generates new narratives about Black women that bridge past and present.
Ballard (b. 1970) holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a dual BA in Studio Art and Art History with a minor in Museum Studies from Rutgers University. Recent honors and awards include a 2023 NJ State Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, and the 2024 NAACP Image Award for the inclusion her work in The New Brownies' Book: A Love Letter to Black Families by Karida L. Brown & Charly Palmer.' 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.
- Creator:Lavett Ballard (1970, American)
- Creation Year:2022
- Dimensions:Height: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Width: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Bryn Mawr, PA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1416215220992
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