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JACKROAD: Artist Blog

JACKROAD:  An Artist Blog

As of this writing, in the fall of 2012, I am intending JACKROAD to be a platform for written and visual essays about art and the artworld as they intersect with our broader society. Its name is an offshoot of my first extensive writing project, MILEMARKER, a collection of essays emanating from a job I had in 1982-87 as a solo coast-to-coast truck driver for an art shipping company. Descriptions from those years morphed over time into fiction, and the results found their way into my various artworks. But today, surrounded by the internet and social media and the vast plethora of images from around the globe, I am hoping to reach, in some substantive way, down into the usual surf of publications that surround my armchair come morning, and offer you some shell to which you can hold your ear come night.

BOOKS BREWS BEANS & 'ZINES   ongoing

On Thomas Hirschhorn: I LOVE TO PRODUCE MY WORK!   October 31, 2012

HOLES 'N BOWLS: ESSAY FOR AN ELECTION...   October 15, 2012

...more

• THE FRONT RANGE AND THE RANGE OF IDENTITY; Catalog Essay for "DECADES OF INFLUENCE / EXTENDED REMIX," Curated by Cydney Payton, Museum of Centemporary Art, Denver. 2007 pp. 50-52
  "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." Cydney Payton, Executive Director / Chief Curator, MoCA Denver.
  
  
• DAWN OVER STARBUCKS, WAIKIKI (A HONOLULU CHRISTMAS) 2005
  
  
  
• THE BLUE COUCH IS LEAVING: LAST CALL FOR EVERGREEN PARK (with Errant Thoughts Regarding the Art Institute of Chicago, Nekkid Womyn, and My Kind Of Town)
  An extensive essay from 2010 and still in progress, describing cleaning out my parents' home after their passing.
  

LINKS:	BOMB MAGAZINE	THE SILO by Raphael Rubinstein