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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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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? |
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October --November, 2020 issue, ArtForum |
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March, 2020 issue, ArtForum |
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December, 2019 issue, ArtForum
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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 |
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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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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. |
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The Morning After, November 9, 2016 |
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October 29, 2015 |
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In this ArtBeat
podcast that aired live at noon on |
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July 13, 2013
"I read with great interest."
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A look at the subtleties of female vs. male erotic image representation in contemporary art-- a feast and famine, respectively-- not only in museums and galleries, but especially among the pages of the art world's chief ambassadors, the hard-copy magazines. In a broader society where the terms "post-black" and "post feminist" can be considered de rigueur, "homo-erotic" makes questionable assumptions about the viewer and is used to sequester male-themed work into a polite, p.c. and invisible pigeon hole where even gays (and the LGBT community as a whole) start to wonder if we actually exist. Beyond issues of parity, however, the author calls for male-image visibility for the sake of a reality beyond the material, one that is in fact constructed by the brain and nurtured by the images promulgated by artists, and one that helps allow all of us to thus construct our own being. Where IS the beef? We've met him. And he is us. :
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