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Jack Balas is an artist originally based in Chicago and Los Angeles, who currently divides his time "out west" between painting, drawing and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media . A recipient in 1995 of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York), the Tucson Museum of Art, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (Iowa), the Kent & Vicki Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Usminas Cultural Institute (Usicultura), Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York). His most recent museum solo was a 2008 project titled "We'll Be Seeing You" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
This website includes a broad spectrum of the artwork divided into individual media in the above navigation bar. You can read an artist statement and get an overview of the work by taking a TOUR. The newest painting and photo work is in the black area below, while a few other highlights from the past are in the adjacent gray.
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SCOPE-MIAMI at Mulherin | CTS booth A 05 NE 1st Ave (Midtown Blvd) at NE 30th St., Miami, FL 33127 ![]() Catalog from Blurb.com An 80-page, full-color look at the MUSE/ MUSEUM series. ![]() Catalog from Blurb.com An 80-page, full-color look at the STUD DUST photo series. SOLO EXHIBITION EGO GALLERY BARCELONA, SPAIN January 29 - March 5, 2009 www.EgoGallery.ES ![]() 40-page full-color catalog available New York City, has recently acquired two pieces from the MUSE / MUSEUM series for its permanent collection.
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![]() Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver "Artist and catalogue contributor Jack Balas captures the boom mood in his poetic essay about being a laborer for hire. His description of driving across the country as an art shipper in the 80's expresses the increasing vulnerability of the artist through a portrait of the landscape. Looking in the rearview mirror suggests that the 90's represented the point of no return for the contemporary art world." Chief Curator, MoCA Denver. |
![]() ![]() PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER (Summer, 2008) |
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© 2002-12 by Jack Balas. |
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![]() LANDSCAPE TEXT COLLAGE OTHER COOL STUFF |
![]() A series of photographs A.K.A. "Studio Men" |
![]() Drawings from Honolulu 2009 |
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