Aleksander Balos

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Aleksander Balos is a Polish artist and figurative painter, who lives in the United States and is a naturalised American.

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[edit] Life and art

Aleksander Balos was born in 1970 in the town of Gliwice, Poland. His parents, Jan and Janina, were artists, who encouraged him to study art in Gliwice Art Center, while he was still in elementary school. He did his first painting lessons with his father’s oil paints. In 1989 he went to the United States to attend St Joseph High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin. There he met with an artist, Mrs Gaggliardi, who encouraged him to attend an art school. Balos studied oil painting under painter and philosopher, Garry Rosin, whose influence of surreal representation left a lasting influence.

After completing BFA in painting with honors from Cardinal Stritch University, and having his first museum show at The Charles Allis Art Museum in 1995, Balos traveled to Chicago, where he attended the School of Representational Art for 2 years. In Chicago, Balos became an American citizen. He moved away from surrealism to representational realism. In 1998, he exhibited his triptych Last Supper at Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. He continues to be represented by this gallery in Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Palm Beach. In 2004 he made contact with Arts Nord Sud, who represent him in Paris, France, and the following year Mr. Balos started exhibiting in Netherlands in Utrecht Gallery, and Gallery Calve in Spain.

[edit] Solo exhibitions

Night Sleep,2001, 36x66, Oil on Linen
Night Sleep,2001, 36x66, Oil on Linen
  • 2006 - Figurative Realism, Utrecht Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2005 - Travaux Récents, by Arts nord sud at Crédit Municipal de Paris, Espace Griffon, Paris, France
  • 2005 - New York, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2003–2004 - New Paintings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2001 - Parables, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 1999 - Martyrs & Sinners, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 1996 - Clara Voce Cogito, Chastain Zollinger Gallery, Chicago, IL

[edit] Group exhibitions

Foolishness,2001, 36x 66, Oil on Linen
Foolishness,2001, 36x 66, Oil on Linen
  • 2007 - Into the Heart of The Southwest, Forbes Galleries New York, NY
  • 2007 - All Media, Gallery 180 of The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
  • 2007 - Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, California Palm Beach, CA
  • 2006 - Realism, Utrecht Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2006 - Acquisition Exhibition, Gallery 180 of The Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago
  • 2006 - Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, California Palm Beach, CA
  • 2006 - Figure, Figure, Utrecht Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 2005 - The Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
  • 2005 - Crucifixion, Mito Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
  • 2005 - Palm Beach 3, Palm Beach, California Palm Beach, CA
  • 2005 - Form and Substance, Agora Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2004 - Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 - Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 - Armory, New York, N.Y
  • 2002 - Art Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
  • 2002 - Young Painters, The Miami University, Oxford, OH
  • 1999 - The Figure Studied : An Examination of the Historical and Contemporary Perspective on the Human Form, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, WI
  • 1999 - The Chicago Art Scene, Belloc Lowndes Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 1998 - Paintings, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 1995 - Paintings of Figures, August House Studio, Chicago, IL
  • 1995 - Elevations, Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
  • 1995 - Paintings, David Barnett Gallery/Rice Building, Milwaukee, WI
  • 1995 - Annual Spring Show, League of Milwaukee Artists, The Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • 1991 - Annual Juried Show, 234 Gallery, Kenosha, WI

[edit] Distinctions

Lifting of the Human Spirit,2001,36x54 ,Oil on Linen
Lifting of the Human Spirit,2001,36x54 ,Oil on Linen

[edit] Publications

  • Direct Art Magazine, #13, NY, articleFall 2006
  • The Departed, Martin Scorsese, 2005
  • Who's Who in International Professionals, 2004
  • Miroir de l’Art, Number 4, Paris, 2004
  • NY Arts Magazine, his philosophy on art2002
  • G. Jurek Polanski, Parables, Artscopes.net, April 2001
  • ArtNet, dealers selling his art his dealers2000
  • New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition in Print, Number 29, Open Studio Press, 2000
  • G. Jurek Polanski, Mystical Realism of Eastern and Western Spirituality, Arscope.net, November 1999
  • The Chicago Art Scene: Sixty-eight Contemporary Artists, Crow Woods Publishing, 1998

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