the press
I was invited into a unique artblog created by Kevin Krumnikl, tenwordsandoneshot.
Selected by the Austin Chronicle as one of the recommended stops on the 2011 East Austin Studio Tour. The Austin Chronicle (November 11, 2011) writes, “what this woman does with oil paints on canvas sets our eyes and minds on fire.”
I was selected to be in the Women Painting Women show at the Robert Lange Studio in Charleston, South Carolina bringing together fifty female painters from around the globe show opening November 2010. See: Artsee_WomenPainting.pdf
KLRU Austin interviewed me during the East Austin Studio Tour in November 2010: watch on Youtube.
Mike Lee of KUT Radio of Austin, Texas interviewed me for “Arts Eclectic.” Click play to listen online.
I am thrilled to have been nominated for the 2009 Artist of the Year in 2-Dimensional Art for the inaugural Austin Visual Arts Awards.
Read the Austin Chronicle’s (January 16, 2009) review of “A Grand Affair.”
Featured in “Welcome to My Studio” in the November 21, 2008 issue of the Austin Chronicle.
Featured in “Keep Austin Artistic: Jennifer Balkan, Painter,” in the September, 2008 issue of Austin Woman.
Read the Austin Chronicle’s (May 23, 2008) review of “Hidden Meaning.
My 2007 show “Untitled in Blue” was nominated for the 2007-2008 Austin Critics Table Awards under the category of “Solo Gallery Exhibition.”
Mike Lee of KUT Radio of Austin, Texas interviewed me for “Arts Eclectic.” Click play to listen online.
Featured in “Seriously Funny: six artists view life with imagination and wit,” in the May, 2008 issue of Southwest Art.
Read latest review in Northern Virginia’s Falls Church News (January 3, 2008) here.
I have been selected to be in New American Paintings, volume 72, released October 1, 2007.
Read the Austin Chronicle’s (May 18, 2007) review of “Untitled in Blue.
Artwork and interview published in Mannequin Envy, quarterly journal of poetic and visual art, Spring 2007.
Artwork published in Farfelu Magazine, Summer 2006.
Artwork and interview published in Edifice Wrecked Lit & Art Zine, Spring 2006.
“Sideshow girl” caught the eye of John Robinson’s Sideshow World, dedicated to “preserving the past while promoting the future of sideshow for fans and performers.” See the Sideshow Art Gallery under “Enjoying the Present…”
Southwest Art Magazine (December, 2005) selected me as an “Artist to Watch.”
Forest Preece of the West Austin News (May 19, 2005) writes a story about me.
The Austin Monthly Magazine (October, 2004) writes about my work.
The Austin American Statesman (July 22, 2004) writes, “Newcomer Jennifer Balkan’s impressionistic paintings, especially her seemingly cinematic ‘In Transit’ series, are provocative. They involve the same female character carrying a small pink suitcase poised near railroad tracks, implying a hidden narrative. Having earned a doctorate in sociology, Balkan began taking painting classes in 2001 and says she is interested in the psychological impact her art has on its audience. (Cindy Sherman in paint?)”
At the 2004 Austin Fine Arts Festival, my friend and portrait model, John Ratliff, describes his experience in the Austin American Statesman (April 1, 2004) as the subject for my oil painting demonstration.
The Austin Chronicle (February 13, 2004) writes about the ‘Segue to Flight’ series in a review.