 Private Collection Miami, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
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Lost and Found
2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Spain. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
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The Writing On The Wall
2007, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
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The Buried Sea
2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
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 Collection of Brooklyn Museum New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Jackson Pollock
(from the series Muse/Museum)
2006-08, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
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©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Corazon
(from the Hard to Figure Series)
2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
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©Jack Balas
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Tattoo Detour Series:
Drawings from Fort Honolulu and the USS Waikiki
2007, ink on paper, 25 images in series, each approx. 9x12in (22x30cm)
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©Jack Balas
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 Untitled (Palm, Hair Wave), 2008, ink on paper, 9x12in (23x30cm).jpg)
Tattoo Detour Series:
Drawings From Honolulu
2008, ink on paper, 39 images in series, each approx. 9x12in (23x30cm)
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©Jack Balas
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 2009, pen and pencil on paper, 9x12in (23x30cm).jpg)
Dibujos de Barcelona Series
2009, pen and pencil on paper, 9 images in series, each approx. 9x12in (23x30cm)
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©Jack Balas
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 2009, pen and pencil on paper, 9x12in (23x30cm).jpg)
The Boys of Basel Series
2009, pen and pencil on paper, 12 images in series, each approx. 9x12in (23x30cm)
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©Jack Balas
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JACK BALAS
Lives and works in Denver
Born USA |
Jack Balas is interested in recontextualizing images of men in a variety of emotional, political and stylistic scenarios -- contexts in which they function as everyman, but are more vulnerable than their surface perfection might suggest.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Jack Balas received his BFA and MFA from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowship in Painting in 1995. His work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York City; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Tucson Museum of Art, among others. A portfolio of his paintings, "Today I Drove Along the Rio Grande," was published in The Paris Review (New York). His most recent museum solo was his 2008 project "We'll Be Seeing You" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver.
Jack Balas
Tick Tock
2007, watercolor, ink and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Washington DC. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York