Laurie Flaherty | Paintings

On view May 19 – May 24, 2014

EBK Gallery [small works].
218 Pearl St.
Hartford, CT

 

“After moving from the city to a small coastal town in Connecticut in 2004, I immediately started seeing hawks, osprey and other birds of prey on a daily basis. This increasing exposure to raptors piqued my interest in painting these majestic creatures. Especially intriguing is the combination of their dual qualities of grace and strength, lightness and power, beauty and intensity. These birds embody freedom and at the same time reveal what is fleeting in life.

I paint the raptors against a clear blue sky in order to focus attention on the magnificence of these remarkable birds. I want to remind the viewer to be alert, to look up and catch a glimpse of what is here one moment and gone the next. I also want to draw attention to the act of looking upward – to the process of elevating – a process that in the birds is physical, but can also be seen as the rise of the emotions and the spirit.” – L.F.

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CV / Resume

Laurie Flaherty

Born 1966  Oshkosh, WI

EDUCATION:
1991 M.F.A. in Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1988 B.F.A. in Painting, Miami University, Oxford, OH

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2014
Selections from the “Birds of Prey” paintings, EBK Gallery [small works] Hartford, CT
2006
“Recent Work”, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
“Tidal”, Artspace Gallery, Guilford, CT
2001
“Through the Skin of Water”, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
1997
“The Waters of March”, Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA
1994
“Drawings”, McQuade Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
1988
“New Work”, Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, OH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2013
Group Show, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Show, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2012
Group Show, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Show, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2011
Group Show, Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Show, South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY
2010
Group Show, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
2009
Group Show, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
2008
“Altered Ground”, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT
“Artists’ Choices”, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
2007
Two Painters, Gallery 195, New Haven, CT
Miniature Show, Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT
Group Show, Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME
2006
“The Constant Line”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
Group Show, Artspace, New Haven, CT
“Gallery Artists”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
2005
Group Show, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Group Show, Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
“Gallery Artists”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
2004
“Gallery Artists”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
“Small Wonders”, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Group Show, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
“Gallery Artists”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME
“Small Wonders”, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2002
Group Show, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
“Gallery Artists”, Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME
“Small Wonders”, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
2001
Group Show, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
“Vision and Aspiration”, Tremont Street Gallery, Boston, MA
juried by Joyce Cohen
2000
“New Work from New Harbor”, Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
1999
“National Prize Show”, Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA juried by Peter Rathbone, Eliza Rathbone and Belinda Rathbone
1998
“Paintings from New Harbor”, Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Image and Verse”, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
juried by Carl Belz
1996
“Natural Immersion”, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
1993
Group Show, McCormack Gallery, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA
Group Show, The (X) Gallery, Nantucket, MA
“Works on Paper”, Nantucket School of Design and the Arts, Nantucket, MA
1991
“Penn Prints: Thirty Years of Printmaking”, Arthur Ross Gallery
Philadelphia, PA
1990
Group Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
Swander Pace Capital, Bedminster, NJ
Deloitte and Touche, Hartford, CT
Habitat for Humanity, Boston, MA

FELLOWSHIPS:
2006 Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Artist Fellowship

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Lopez Scmalz, Leah, “A Trip to the Tropics”, Shoreline Publishing, March 22, 2007
Lopez Schmalz, Leah, “A Sea of Life in the Dead of Winter”, Shoreline Publishing, March 2, 2006
“Waterviews in Guilford Exhibit”, Shoreline Publishing, February 16, 2006
“Perspectives”, The Boston Globe, August 20, 1997
Mulski, Susan, “Natural Immersion,” Art New England, December 1996
Millis, Christopher, “The deceptive surfaces of the inner landscape”
South End News, September 19, 1996
Temin, Christine, “Renovation and Landscape Show Light up BCA’s Mills Gallery”
The Boston Globe, September 15, 1996
“Immersed in Landscape at the Mills Gallery”, South End News, August 29, 1996