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JACK BALAS: SOME DAYS (I JUST WANT TO PAINT)
JANUARY 11- MARCH, 2024
JACK BALAS
CLAMP
247 WEST 29TH ST
NEW YORK, NY 10001
SPECIAL GUEST DUANE MICHALS
SATURDAY JANUARY 13, at 4pm
OCTOBER 27-- DECEMBER 3, 2023
JACK BALAS AND WES HEMPEL
FRONT RANGE, BACK TO BACK
WILLIAM HAVU GALLERY
1040 Cherokee St.
Denver, CO 80204
AD_MISSION
(Those ads in ArtForum)
JackRoad Blog Entry
| "The
surfaces of your wry, ruminative paintings hold light wonderfully,
and your references to Wyeth and Homer give a poignant new perspective
on Americana. I've enjoyed reading...the riffs and reinterpretations of gallery press materials and museum wall labels. In a way, they conflate exhibitions of the last 20 years with earnest, personal distractions and mundanities, which is what looking at art is all about." |
James Rondeau President and Director, Art Institute of Chiacgo (Feb, 2022) |
United States Embassy
Vienna, Austria
and
United States Embassy
Stockholm, Sweden
Art in Embassies Program
HAND OF SORROW, AND THEY
WANDERED THROUGH THE LAND OF JOY:
A LEGACY OF MARSDEN HARTLEY
(Group exhibition)
October 28, 2022--March 18, 2023
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
SPEAKEASY
A proposal to support artists
from auctions
SOLO SHOW:
NOVEMBER, 2020--JANUARY, 2021
JACK BALAS: COMMON GROUND:
PAINTINGS FOR AMERICA
WILLIAM HAVU GALLERY
1040 Cherokee St.
Denver, CO 80204
Reviewed in The Denver Post
by Ray Mark Rinaldi
JANUARY 9--FEBRUARY 29, 2020
JACK BALAS: CHECKERED PASSED
CLAMP ART
247 WEST 29TH ST
NEW YORK, NY 10001
INSTALLATION PHOTOS
AUGUST 19 --OCTOBER 5, 2019
JACK BALAS: AGAINST THE GRAIN:
MEN, MAPS AND OTHER INCORRECTIONS
Gallery of Art
University of Northern Iowa,
CATALOG AVAILABLE:
available at BLURB.com
SOLO SHOW:
JACK BALAS: MAINE AND AGAIN
University of Maine Museum of Art
Bangor, Maine
September 15--December 22, 2017
Catalog available from Blurb
THE 2015 SOLO SHOW:
"ART BEAT" with
KATHRYN DAVIS
KVSF 101.5 FM
October 29, 2015
PODCAST LINK HERE
An introduction to the
Paintings, Drawings, Photo
and Writing.
160 pages
availabl;e at BLURB.com
solo show in Barcelona, 2009
|
WHERE'S THE BEEF? A LOOK FOR (AND LACK OF) THE MALE EROTIC IMAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART. IS THE TERM "HOMO-EROTIC" PEJORATIVE?  "An important issue I hadn't thought much about." --Lucy Lippard, Independent Critic & Curator -- Raphael Rubinstein, Contributing Editor, Art In America --William Morrow, Curator, Denver Art Museum who took an intense look at it." --Dr. Sonja Teine, Assistant to Director Okwui Enwezor, Haus der Kunst, Munich |
 (Artist Talk) Sharp Auditorium Denver Art Museum Denver, CO |
|
New York City, has recently acquired two pieces from the MUSE / MUSEUM series for its permanent collection. |
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.
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PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER
(Summer, 2008)
© 2002--2025 by Jack Balas.
 MULTI-YEAR SURVEY OF PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS |
A series of photographs
A.K.A. "Studio Men"
and other sculpture
LANDSCAPE
TEXT
COLLAGE
OTHER COOL STUFF