BALLARD, JR [ USA ]
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Lives and Works in USA    
 

EDUCATION: The Art Institute, Houston USA. The University of California at Santa Barbara. Los Angeles Valley College; majoring in Psychology with a minor in art. TEACHING EXPERIENCE. Artcetera, Houston, Arlington Women’s Art, Arlington, Texas.  Meadowbriar Residential Facility, Houston, designed curriculum in self-development /motivational art class targeted to emotionally dysfunctional adolescents. Juvenile Probation, art as facilitator for social integration. BammelwoQd Elementary, second grade, painted stories. Santa Barbara Mental Health Art Classes. California Association of Neurologically Handicapped Children.

 
1. Requiem for the Morning Paper, 1997 watercolor, 185,5 x 129,5 cm., 73 x 51 in.
  US$ 15,200

2. Peace, 1999 watercolor with solvent transfers & text, 130 x 89 cm., 51 x 35 in.
  US$ 12,900

3. The Final Coming, 1998 watercolor, text& collage, 124,5 x 106,5 cm., 49 x 42 in.
  US$ 15,200

4. RECOLLECTION - 0IIXIV, 2002
 42 X 60 CM
  US$ NFS

5. Conversation with Bach, 1998 watercolor 35 x 30 in
  US$ 12,000

6. Ginger, 1996 watercolor, 38 x 48 in
  US$ 12,000



 

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 ABOUT VISION SHOWCASE Refocus-Now for Global Cafe London UK

2002 Ninth Life Gallery Gallery Owners Show,Rolex Cup 2002, St. Thomas, V.I.

2001The 5th International Graphic Art Annual, Art Addiction, Stockholm Sweden

2000 Celebrity Art Auction 2000, funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation for ICROSS

1998 Women in the Visual and Literary Arts Membership Exhibit, Gallery of Distinctive Art, Houston

1998 Blossom Street Gallery Annual Group Show, Houston

1998 The Art League Houston, 50th Anniversary Open Juried Show, Award Winner

1997 Ocotillo Gallery, Houston

1996 The Museum of Fine Arts Austin, 5th International Group Show

1993 Business Volunteers for the Arts, Houston

1989  Artcetera, Houston

1966  Sabado y Domingo Art Association, Santa Barbara, CA

1967 Sabado y Domingo Art Association, Santa Barbara, CA

1967 Goleta Art Association, Goleta, CA

1967 Arts International Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

-The Cultural Arts Council of Houston (CACH), Public Registry

-The Art League, Houston, and Registry

-Houston Women's Caucus for the Arts, Houston (member)

-The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

-Art Addiction International Art Association, Sweden

 

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

-Aviv Corrigan, Ireland

-Alden and Barbara Emmert-Schiller, Austin

-Larry and Barbara Sanford, Houston

-Pat Silver, Houston

-Virginia Lang, Houston

-Mr. & Mrs. John Webb, Houston

-Christine Holland, Los Angeles

-Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Koch, Kerrville

-Jenny Wakefield, Houston

-J. Stensrude, Houston

-Mrs. Joseph Adamo, Hollywood

-Emily Wahl, Houston

-Carol Davies, Houston

-Mr. & Mrs. Keith Williams, Houston

-Mr. & Mrs. Robert Thomason, Houston

-Ralph and Nora Howard, Houston

-Paul Lynde Collection, Estate

 

PUBLICATIONS

-2001 World of Art, issue 4  JR BALLARD Artistic Profile

-2001 World of Art, issue 3  JR BALLARD Artistic Profile

-1998 THE AIDS CRISIS. An Interview with Nancy Sims;

JOSHUA’S DREAM, COVER ART AND COMMENTARY. Uptown Express, Houston.

-1994 THE MYSTICAL PAINTINGS OF JOANNA BALLARD by Janice Stensrude, Uptown Express, Houston.

-1989 AN INTERVIEW WITH MEL FElT, MEN’S RIGHTS ADVOCATE;

ADAM UNHEALED, COVER ART AND COMMENTARY. Uptown Express, Houston.

-1989 HUNTER TODD: MAN BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; COVER DESIGN. Uptown ExDress, Houston.

-1989 INTO THE MOONGATE, COVER ART AND ARTICLE. Uptown Express, Houston.

-1989 COVER ART. Alternatives Journal, Dallas.

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.

Giorgio de Chirico

 

My work is a spiritual impetus that leaves me no choice but to deliver a “certain knowledge” transformed into visual images. The delivery of these images are re­presentative of a collective unconscious,

called by W.B. Yeats, the Spiritus Mundi.

REPRESENTED

2001 Art Addiction Internet Museum

LECTURE

HEALING ART, -slide presentation and lecture, Oakland, California, September 2000
A DAY OF HEALING; funded by A.M.O.R.C. as a public forum
Gallery representation: Blossom Street.Gallery, Houston, Texas www.blossomstreetgallery.com