Jack Balas: American Male

Jack Balas is seeking questions to life's big answers, and it’s no wonder that he surrounds himself with some of the most beautiful men around to inspire him along the way. In his European solo debut at Ego Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, Balas's exhibition “American Male” brings together thirty works that celebrate the heroic and yet simultaneously vulnerable male figure. Born in Chicago in the late 1950's when America saw extraordinary social change, he was a student of art’s evolution from the 1970’s forced-march of severe minimalism to the 1980’s post-modernist pluralism, when anything became possible.