{"id":903,"date":"2020-08-27T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/?p=903"},"modified":"2021-01-11T02:36:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:36:08","slug":"lavett-ballard-just-like-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/gallery\/2020\/08\/27\/lavett-ballard-just-like-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavett Ballard – “Just Like A Woman”"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 28 – Oct 1, 2020
\nMerion Hall Gallery<\/h4>\n

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\nArtist Talk, Friday, September 11, 4pm.
\nTo reserve a spot in person, please email jbracy@sju.edu.\u00a0 There will be a 20 person limit.\u00a0 Click the registration link<\/a> to attend the event virtually via a zoom webinar.<\/h3>\n
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Lavett Ballard is a contemporary artist who uses collage to interrogate presumptions about race, gender, and perception. Her collages combine archival photography, magazine cutouts, and a wide range of materials, such as copper foil, wax, and even hair, and she adheres them to particle board, birch, and even old fences. Her process welcomes accident, which highlights their materiality. Ballard\u2019s collages put past and present into dialogue with each other and encourage viewers to look more closely while at the same time taking in the picture her various sources create. The artist conducts a great deal of research to find her images, and the story behind the person is just as important, if not more important, than the image itself. In Ballard\u2019s images of women, the women tell their own stories.<\/p>\n

– Emily Hage, PhD.
\nChair, Art and Art History Department
\nAssociate Professor, Art History<\/p>\n

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