Jack Balas Paintings
Jack Balas is an artist whose work primarily includes painting, drawing and photography; occasionally cross-pollinated with writing and other media. After earning his BFA and MFA in sculpture from Northern Illinois University, Balas moved from the Chicago area to Los Angeles, where he worked as a cross-country art shipper, driving between Los Angeles and New York on a route that regularly took him through the western landscapes that have come to define much of his work. Eventually moving away from sculpture entirely, Balas began producing paintings of athletic young men, annotated and layered with numbers, illustrations, personal anecdotes, and other disparate elements that offer a depiction of idealized masculinity in America through the lens of Balas's personal experiences; as well as a contemporary counterpoint to the art-historical archetype of the female nude. A 1995 recipient of an Individual Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, Balas is now represented in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Denver Art Museum, Colorado; the Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; the Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico; and the Usiminas Cultural Institute, Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil; among others. Balas currently divides his time between Denver and Tucson.
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Gouache, Watercolor, India Ink, Paper
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Acrylic, India Ink, Paper
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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Early 2000s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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1960s American Modern Jack Balas Paintings
Gouache, India Ink, Pencil
1990s Abstract Expressionist Jack Balas Paintings
India Ink, Cardboard, Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Canvas, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Mixed Media, Canvas, Charcoal, Pastel, India Ink, Acrylic
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Pastel, India Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard, Etching
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Foil
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Foil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
1980s Pointillist Jack Balas Paintings
India Ink, Gouache, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Acrylic, India Ink, Illustration Board
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
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2010s Contemporary Jack Balas Paintings
Gesso, Oil, Paper