Laurie Flaherty is an American artist best known for paintings depicting natural world in all its splendor, dazzle and with surprising patterns.
Flaherty was born in Oshkosh in 1966. She received her B.F.A. in Painting at Miami University in Oxford, and her M.F.A. in Painting from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Laurie takes nature as her sole inspiration, creating paintings that are, as the artist says, both outward and inward looking. What she does is transforming elements, taken from the world of nature, to the pure visual metaphors of her own inner world of emotions and ideas.
Her colors are mostly clean, fitting perfectly to Laurie’s fascinating patterning. Focusing on color, composition and light, Flaherty captures elements derived from the careful observation, some sort of a conversation between her and the nature, revealing untouched human experience.
Flaherty held many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and Ohio and her work can be found in private and corporate permanent collections in New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
The artist is represented by EBK Gallery.
Featured image: Laurie Flaherty – Uplift (detail)
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Year | Exhibition Title | Museum/Gallery | Solo/Group |
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2015 | Real Art Ways | Group Show, Hartford, CT | Group |
2015 | Group Show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2015 | Group Show | Sorelle Gallery, New Canaan, CT and Albany, NY | Group |
2015 | Awakenings | Art Space, Guilford, CT | Solo |
2014 | Birds of Prey | EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT | Solo |
2014 | Group Show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2014 | Group Show | South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY | Group |
2013 | Group Show | Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT | Group |
2013 | Group Show | EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT | Group |
2013 | Group show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2012 | Group Show | Art Essex Gallery, Essex, CT | Group |
2012 | Group Show | EBK Gallery, West Hartford, CT | Group |
2012 | Group show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2012 | Group Show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2012 | Group Show | South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY | Group |
2011 | Group Show | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2011 | Group Show | South Street Gallery, Greenport, NY | Group |
2010 | Group Show | Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2009 | Group Show | Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2008 | Altered Ground | Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT | Group |
2008 | Artists' Choices | Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2007 | Two Painters | Gallery 195, New Haven, CT | Group |
2007 | Miniature Show | Mill Gallery, Guilford, CT | Group |
2007 | Group Show | Mulford Collectors Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2006 | The Constant Line | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2006 | Group Show | Artspace, New Haven, CT | Group |
2006 | Gallery Artists | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2006 | Recent Work | Soprafina Gallery, Boston, MA | Solo |
2006 | Tidal | Artspace Gallery, Guilford, CT | Solo |
2005 | Group Show | Artspace, New Haven, CT | Group |
2005 | Group Show | Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ | Group |
2005 | Gallery Artists | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2004 | Gallery Artists | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2004 | Small Wonders | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2003 | Group Show | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2003 | Gallery Artists | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2003 | Small Wonders | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2002 | Group Show | Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME | Group |
2002 | Gallery Artists | Nan Mulford Gallery, Rockport, ME | Group |
2002 | Small Wonders | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2001 | Group Show | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2001 | Vision and Aspiration | Tremont Street Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
2001 | Through the Skin of Water | Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA | Solo |
2000 | New Work from New Harbor | Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT | Group |
1999 | National Prize Show | Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA juried by Peter Rathbone, Eliza Rathbone and Belinda Rathbone | Group |
1998 | Paintings from New Harbor | Small Space Gallery, New Haven, CT | Group |
1998 | Image and Verse | University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA | Group |
1997 | The Waters of March | Gallery 57, Cambridge, MA | Solo |
1996 | Natural Immersion | Mills Gallery, Boston, MA | Group |
1994 | Drawings | Mcuade Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA | Solo |
1993 | Group Show | McCormack Gallery, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA | Group |
1993 | Group Show | The (X) Gallery, Nantucket, MA | Group |
1993 | Works on Paper | Nantucket School of Design and the Arts, Nantucket, MA | Group |
1991 | Penn Prints: Thirty Years of Printmaking | Arthur Ross Gallery | Group |
1990 | Group Show | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA | Group |
1988 | New Work | Hiestand Gallery, Oxford, OH | Solo |