Jerrold Curtis Ballaine (born February 16,1934) is an American painter,sculptor,draftsman,photographer and educator,presently Emeritus Professor of Art at the University of California,Berkeley. https://jerroldballaineart.com/resume.htm
During his tenure as an Art Professor,Ballaine was acting director of the University Art Museum. In 1980,he was awarded the Humanities Research Fellowship.[2]
Education
Ballaine attended the University of Washington,Seattle from 1952 to 1955. He subsequently joined Art Center School in Los Angeles in 1958. Later on,he completed his B.F.A. degree from the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1959,and his M.F.A. degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961.[3]
Career
Ballaine started his teaching career in 1963 at Cornish School of Allied Arts,Seattle. In 1965,he joined the University of California,Berkeley and worked there till 1994. During his teaching career,he received many awards including;Summer Faculty Fellowship in 1969,Creative Arts Institute Grant in 1971,Humanities Research Fellowship in 1980. He also served as Interim Museum Director for a year from 1975 to 1976 during his teaching career in the University of California.[4]
Photo of UC Berkeley Art Museum in 2008
History of Work
In the 1960s,the art world categorized him among the Bay Area figurative painters,a West Coast foil to the East coast,"Abstract Expressionist" movement. His first solo exhibition was in New York at the Zabriskie Gallery in 1960 and at the then important gallery,Gump's San Francisco,in 1961. From that origin,came 50 solo exhibitions and an equal number of group appearances.
Figurative painting by Jerrold Ballaine:includes self,Neri and Diebenkorn
Landscape
In response to a stimulus by Peter Selz,Professor of art at UC Berkeley (1965–1988) and director of the Berkeley Art Museum (1965–1973):"Why not landscape? Why can't we do landscape?" Ballaine worked for many years producing vast numbers of paintings themed in landscape,seascape,cloud formations,trees in winter,animals,and a wonderful series on China Town,San Francisco.[5][6]
Examples of landscape paintings of Jerrold Ballaine
Drawing
Steeped in the fundamentals of drawing through his years at the Art Center School in Los Angeles,he was influenced by Lorser Feitelson,John Altoon) and Harry Carmean;drawing was to become his home,usually working directly from models.
Several examples of drawings of Jerrold Ballaine
Sculpture
Ballaine shared studio space with Joan Brown,Manuel Neri's wife. Neri suggested aiming his figurative view towards sculpture and invited him to share his studio in Carara,Italy for several summers. His sculptural work combines the purity of Carara marble with Ballaine's unique color palette.[7]
The sculpture of Jerrold Ballaine
Funk
He was a major contributor to the San Francisco Bay area movement known as "Funk," so designated by Peter Selz.[8] Ballaine employed large specialized ovens and suction machinery to create unique painted three dimensional works. For four decades he worked in this way,his creations a mixture of manipulated and molded thyroplastics. These were the subject of three major books on this unique form of three dimensional painting by Jack Leissring[8] reference.[9][10] The earliest work was in an exhibition curated by Peter Selz in 1967.[11]
Book cover,vacuum form tool and vacuum formed artwork
Photography
In the 1970s,Ballaine used a different medium,photography,to achieve his artistic goals which were critically praised by the San Francisco Chronicle art critic,Thomas Albright (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/05/15/Obituary/6481453441600/. (Art in the San Francisco Bay Area,1945–1980:An Illustrated History,1985,978-0520055186)
Awards and honors
1960 –San Francisco Museum of Drawing and Print Art,Annual Award
Bibliography
Exhibitions
1967 - University Art Museum,Univ. California Berkeley,April/May 1967
1995 –Kuwait Museum. Al-Adwane Gallery,Guest of Kuwait Govt.
1995 –Traveled Egypt
1998 –Trosa,Sweden
1998 –Gallery "C" International,Paris,France
1999 –Athens Gallery,Athens,Greece
2004 –Quicksilver Mine Co. Forestville,CA.
2006 –1212 Gallery,Burlingame,CA.
2008 –Withywindle Gallery,Guerneville,Calif
2010,2011,2012,2013 –JC Leissring Fine Art,Santa Rosa,Ca. and Permanent Collection
2014 –Christie Marks Gallery,Healdsburg,Ca.,May 9 –June 22,2014
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