Jerrold Ballaine, Book One
*So Many Roads Tease My Soul"
Polymath, multi-talented, restlessly innovative, profoundly proliferative, Jerrold Ballaine, known as a leader in the ÒBay Area Figurative School,Ó he also led the ÒFunkÓ movement of the 1970Õs. His output of uniformly significant work is extraordinary by any standard. The present study attempts to examine a life of many inter-penetrating interests and skills. In an era of superspecalization,it is rare that so many significant skills are embodied by one artist In an era where individuals of doubtful significance are raised to undeserved status, If we considered only BallaineÕs contributions to figurative painting and sculpture, it would yield a vast body of significant work. The quantity and variety of BallaineÕs work required two separate volumes, yet these texts cannot be considered a catalog raisonnŽ; it is only the tip of an iceburg.
ISBN 978-0-9630085-9-6