CURRENT SHOWS
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AD_MISSION
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JackRoad Blog Entry
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"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,
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2022 -- 2023
United States Embassy
Vienna, Austria
and
United States Embassy
Stockholm, Sweden
US Department of State
Art in Embassies Program
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AND SO DID PLEASURE TAKE THE
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 Museum of Art
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
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 SPEAKEASY
A proposal to support artists
from auctions
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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
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SOLO
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JANUARY 9--FEBRUARY 29, 2020
JACK
BALAS: CHECKERED PASSED
CLAMP ART
247 WEST 29TH ST
NEW YORK, NY 10001
REVIEWED
IN WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
SEE EXHIBITION
INSTALLATION PHOTOS
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SOLO
SHOW:
AUGUST 19 --OCTOBER 5, 2019
JACK
BALAS: AGAINST THE GRAIN:
MEN, MAPS AND OTHER INCORRECTIONS
Gallery of Art
University of Northern Iowa,
CATALOG AVAILABLE:
Catalog for the solo exhibition
available at BLURB.com
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SOLO SHOW:
JACK
BALAS: MAINE AND AGAIN
University of Maine Museum of Art
Bangor, Maine
September 15--December 22, 2017
EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHS
Catalog available from Blurb
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RADIO INTERVIEW ON
THE 2015 SOLO SHOW:
"ART BEAT" with
KATHRYN DAVIS
KVSF 101.5 FM
October 29, 2015
PODCAST LINK HERE
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GUY'D BOOK
An introduction to the
Paintings, Drawings, Photo
and Writing.
160 pages
availabl;e at BLURB.com
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YouTube Interview from
solo show in Barcelona, 2009
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New Essay on JACKROAD:
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
"I read with great
interest."
-- Raphael Rubinstein, Contributing Editor, Art In America
"You are a good
writer."
--William Morrow, Curator, Denver Art Museum
"I was happy to
pass it on to Okwui Enwezor,
who took an intense look at it."
--Dr. Sonja Teine, Assistant to Director Okwui Enwezor, Haus
der Kunst, Munich
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From the archive: 
LOGAN
LECTURE
(Artist Talk)
Sharp Auditorium
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
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The BROOKLYN MUSEUM,
New York City,
has recently acquired two pieces
from the MUSE / MUSEUM
series
for its permanent collection.
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Current
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TATTOO
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Drawings from
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THE 2020
COMPANY SERIES
A Response
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MUSE / MUSEUM --
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2006 - 2023
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www.JackBalas.com: BACK TO BACK OF THE YARDS:
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Collage Series:
BACK TO
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CATALOG ESSAY for "DECADES OF INFLUENCE"
and "EXTENDED REMIX"
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."
Cydney
Payton, Executive Director /
Chief Curator, MoCA Denver.
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"WE'LL
BE SEEING YOU" :
PROJECT AND SOLO EXHIBITION
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, DENVER
(Summer, 2008)
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