About

ClampArt is pleased to announce “Jack Balas | Checkered Passed”—the artist’s first solo show with the gallery, and his third solo exhibition in New York City.

Jack Balas is an artist whose work primarily includes painting, drawing, and photography, often incorporating extensive textual elements. After earning BFA and MFA degrees in sculpture from Northern Illinois University, Balas moved from the Chicago area to Los Angeles, where he first 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 …