 Private Collection Brazil, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
 Private Collection Barcelona, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Manhattan is Modern Again
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Spain. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private Collection New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Donald Judd Single Stacks
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private Collection New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Donald Judd
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private collection New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Winogrand
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Shock Of The New
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Miami. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
, 2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Ed Ruscha Busted Glass
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
, 2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Luc Tuymans Regime Change
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
DAP (from the series MUSE/Museum)
2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New Jersey. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 (MUSE-Museum Series), watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm).jpg)
Nayland Blake Expulsion From The Garden (MUSE-Museum Series)
2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 (MUSE-Museum Series), 2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Nayland Blake Expulsion From The Garden
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
, 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Old School
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
, 2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm).jpg)
Tracey Emin
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2008, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private collection New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Warhols World
from the series MUSE-Museum
2006-08, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Collection of Brooklyn Museum New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Robert Mapplethrope
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Robert Ryman
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
The Great Persuader
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
 Collection of Brooklyn Museum New York, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Jackson Pollock
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59in)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
LA County
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private Collection, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Pause
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
The Undiscovered Country
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Balkan Epic
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Connectcut. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Collection of Artist, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
I Love My Scene
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Richard Serra
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private Collection, image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Rembrandt
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
 Private Collection image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
John Coplans
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 Private Collection image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Cindy Sherman
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
 image courtesy of CTS creative thriftshop, New York.jpg)
Carnegie International
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 15x23in (38x59cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
, 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm).jpg)
Lichtenstein Girls
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2007, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection New York. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
Pablo Picasso
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2007, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Texas. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York
, 2008, watercolor, acrylic and ink on paper, 15x23in, (23x58cm).jpg)
Susan Sontag
(MUSE-Museum Series)
2007, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop
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
Barbara Kruger (MUSE-Museum Series) 2006, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 23x15in (59x38cm)
©Jack Balas
Private Collection Brazil. image courtesy of {CTS} creativethriftshop, New York