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JACKROAD: An Artist Blog
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.
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XXX ![]() January--February, 2021 issue, ArtForum |
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Consider the multiple meanings of the series title. "Ad_Mission" sets a self-directed goal for the ads themselves to accomplish. "Admission" also conveys an entry fee, as well as a confession of sorts-- but to what? |
XXX October --November, 2020 issue, ArtForum |
XXX March, 2020 issue, ArtForum |
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XXX December, 2019 issue, ArtForum
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XXX January, 2020 issue, ArtForum |
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Summer 2018 issue, ArtForum |
September 2019 issue, ArtForum |
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above: December 2017 issue, ArtForum |
above: September 2017 issue, Art In America |
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above: Summer 2017 issue, ArtForum |
above: April 2017 issue, ArtForum |
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above: November 2015 issue, ArtForum |
THE
WALL, NOGALES -- (LA PARED)
Crossing the US-Mexico border
at Nogales, Sonora, |
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BRUCE
WHITE: A LOVE LETTER,
An essay on sculptor Bruce White |
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SHELF LIFE:
December 4, 2015 |
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VIDEO
INTERVIEW FROM EGO GALLERY, BARCELONA (on YouTube) |
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A four-minute interview in Balas's European solo debut at Ego Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, in 2009. |
The Morning After, November 9, 2016 |
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TROY'S PLACE |
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October 31, 2012 |
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