Douglas Balentine

Charleston, SC

Parsons alumnus and Charleston native, Douglas Balentine has been drawing and painting as long as he can remember. His father, the late Neuropathologist, Dr. J Douglas Balentine, M.D., was an early supporter frequently taking the young budding artist (from the age of six onward) to his lab and encouraging him to draw skulls, skeletons, and brains from life. While studying at Parsons in New York City and at The International School of Art in Italy, some of his first works were purchased and collected. He began to show his work and execute commissioned pieces during this period and reviews of Douglas’s earliest shows noted his “emerging and surprisingly maturing talent, promise of thematic content, and the sumptuousness and strength of his draftsmanship.” Charleston and its environs offer a seemingly eternal source of inspiration and he continues to live and work there with his family. His work has most recently been shown in Paris, France, New York,  Miami, and Los Angeles.