Laurie Celine Balliett

Laurie Celine Balliett
PO Box 989 
El Prado, NM 87529
www.laurieballiett.com
(508) 237-9499
laurie@laurieballiett.com
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Artist Statement:
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From the shores of Cape Cod, where she began her painting career, to the mountains, canyons, and rivers of Taos, Laurie’s plein-air and studio oil paintings present her passion for wild places both east and west. Her intuitive sense of color harmony and skillful use of impasto allows her to capture the exhilarating immediacy of iconic environments.

Laurie intends to transcend the direct experience of place and emotion into her expressionistic paintings. She is a third-great-granddaughter of the Hudson River School artist, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and like him, she sometimes includes evidence of human existence.

Laurie began painting in college while studying environmental ethics and nature writing. In 2009 she visited Taos for two weeks and stayed for five months, painting daily with local plein-air artists. She made Taos her permanent home in 2013. She grew up in Texas and Colorado and as a child spent summers in the Berkshire region of New England, near her extended family. When she was 22, she moved from Colorado to Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, before she put herself through Mount Holyoke College and Graduate School. Since then, she has lived in New Mexico, Vermont, Colorado, and again in Massachusetts. She lives in Taos, New Mexico.

Laurie has exhibited in New Mexico, Colorado, and Massachusetts and her art hangs on collectors’ walls throughout the United States and many countries. Her art is displayed at the Ammann Gallery in Taos, and prints and cards can be found at The Harwood Museum Store.

Artist Bio:

Exhibitions and Galleries
Present - 2021, Ammann Gallery, Taos, NM Originals, prints, and cards
Present - 2022,  Harwood Art Museum Store, prints and cards
Present - 2024, Confluence, Taos Ski Valley
2025 -- Installation, 2023 acceptance - Western Regional Art in Public Places Recipient, University of New Mexico Hospital, Tower, installation scheduled for Fall 2025.
2024- 2022, Taos Museum at the Fechin House, Selected Originals
2025- Summer Lamp Post Banner Artist, Town of Taos & Taos Arts Council, April - October.
2025 - Millicent Rogers Museum, Miniatures Show Fundraiser. February
2024 - Millicent Rogers Auction, October through November.
2021 - Present, Ammann Gallery, Taos, NM Originals, prints, and cards
2022 - Present, Harwood Art Museum Gift Shop, framed prints and cards
2024 - Spring Light Post Banner Artist, Town of Taos & Taos Arts Council April - October.
2024 - Millicent Rogers Museum, Miniatures Show Fundraiser. February.
2023 - Present Confluence at The Taos Ski Valey, Prints and Cards
2023-2024 Winter Light Post Banner Artist, Town of Taos & Taos Arts Council, November 2023 - April 2024
2023 - Summer Lamp Post Banner Artist, Town of Taos & Taos Arts Council, April - October.
2023 Taos Fall Arts Festival, September.
2023 - Millicent Rogers Museum, Miniatures Show Fundraiser. February.
2022 - Taos Arts Council, “Random Art Show” Taos Center for the Arts, People’s Choice Award.
2022 Taos Fall Arts Festival, September.
2021 Taos Fall Arts Festival, September.
2020 Brewster Ladies’ Library, Brewster, MA, Feb. 2020 Solo show, High Altitude Landscapes of Northern New Mexico, Large Paintings.
2019 Inkberry Books, Niwot, Colorado, September, 2019.
2019 Taos Center for the Arts Juried Solo Show, The Taos Historic Inn January - May.
2018 Farmhouse Cafe and Gallery solo show, January - March
2017 Millicent Rogers Museum Miniature show, January-February, Taos, NM
2016 Farmhouse Cafe and Gallery solo show, December 2016 - February 2017
2016 Taos Open, Fall Arts Festival, September 2015
2015 Taos Artist Collective, May, June 2015
2015 Taos Select, Taos Fall Arts Festival, September 2015
2015 Millicent Rogers Museum Miniature show, January-February, Taos, NM.
2014 - 2018 Desert Dolphin Art Studio, El Prado, NM
2014 Taos Community Arts, Quick Draw and Auction, Taos, NM
2014 Taos Fall Arts Festival, Taos Open, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Taos, NM
2014 Charles Collins Gallery, Taos, NM
2013, 2012, 2011 Laurie Balliett Fine Art Studio, Eastham, MA
2013 Solo show: Salt Pond Visitors Center, Cape Cod National Seashore, Eastham, MA
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 Orleans Medical Center Gallery, East Orleans, featured artist.
2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA
2013, 2012, Addison Art Gallery, Orleans, MA, Plein Air Paint Out Shows and Receptions
2012, Moab Utah Plein Air Paint Out, Quick Draw, and Group Show, Moab, UT
2012 Dancing Turnip Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2011 Cotuit Arts Center, Cotuit, MA, “Wild Things” Juried Show
2010 Three Fish and a Ram, Mashpee, MA
2010 Solo Show, Rockland Trust Bank: “New Paintings by Laurie Balliett”
2009 Solo Show, Brewster Ladies Library, “High and Low Altitude Landscapes of New Mexico and Cape Cod”
2009 Anna Karin Gallery, Truchas New Mexico, “Taos Paintings”
2009, 2008, Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA, various member shows.
2006, Dairy Center for the Arts, group show, Boulder Colorado


Teaching:

October 2022, Ghost Ranch Plein-air Palette Knife, co-taught with Michelle Chrisman
May 2023 and 2024 Private Group at Ghost Ranch, Plein Air Palette Knife.
Ongoing: Private Individual and Group Lessons

Affiliations:

Taos Arts Council, Artist Member
Taos Center for the Arts, Artist Member
New Mexico Plein Air Painters, 2022 - Present
Oil Painters of America 2014 - present
Taos Plein Air Painters 2014 - present
Provincetown Art Association, Artist Member 2008 - 2018
Cape Cod Arts Foundation, Artist Member 2009 - 2014
Cape Cod Art Association, juried Artist member 2008 - 2013

Education

Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts BA Philosophy, 1994
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado MA Philosophy, 1998
Cape Cod Community College, W. Barnstable, MA 1989 to 1991 transferred to MHC