Jack Balas

Jack Balas is an American artist working in painting and photography, cross-referenced at times with writing and other media. A recipient in 1995 of an individual fellowship in painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is represented in the Kent Logan Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. A portfolio of his paintings "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande" was published in issue #120 of The Paris Review (New York).SEEKING QUESTIONS TO LIFE'S BIG ANSWERSThere are three overlapping bodies of current painting and photo work here, all figurative. When I worked with landscape imagery and the constructed environment years ago I liked to talk about formal concerns: painting as map or diary linking visual and verbal, conceptual and material, fact and fiction, abstraction and representation; not to mention a viewer building bridges between disparate ideas. With the paintings here, though, I would simply say I am interested in memorable images. In 2004, while having a solo show in New York, I happened to see "Open House," a show at the Brooklyn Museum featuring 200 artists working in the borough. While my work seemed to fit in more or less with the other galleries in Williamsburg, it seemed far on the opposite end of...

AWARDS1995 - Individual Fellowship in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.1991 - Fellowship in Photography, Colorado Council on the Arts & Humanities.SELECTED COLLECTIONS- Kent Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.- McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, New York.SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2006 - Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York.2006 - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado. (part of Colorado Biennial)2006 - Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas.2006 - Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.2005 - "Scope-Hamptons" (Jack The Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY)2004 - Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York2005, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991 - Robischon Gallery, Denver.2003, 2002 - g2 Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona2000 - Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas.1997 - Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.1996 - University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming.1996 - Warehouse Studio, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.1990, 1989, 1988 - Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, California.SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2006 - DECADES OF INFLUENCE, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.2006 - ENGENDERED SPECIES, California State Univ., Long Beach, CA.2005 - "SE...