Jules de Balincourt
Jules de Balincourt was born in Paris (b.1972). He did his BFA at California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco and his MFA at Hunter College NYC. He now shows with Zach Feuer Gallery in New York. Balincourt gained notoriety while he was still at Hunter, when he built an indoor treehouse of scrounged materials that he used to spy on his instructor while they debated whether or not pass him. His works tends toward the political, both obliquely and head on. Balincourt is often described as having an outsider style, a claim that does not stick well in my eyes, and often uses spray paint and tape in his paintings along with the more ‘fine art’ material.
Needless to say, I like this work. He even paints on board, my kind of guy. His somewhat naive style belies the ironic and partisan content of his paintings, for instance in U.S. World Studies III (above) Balincourt charts corporate donations to the Republican party state by state.
I also really enjoy the occasional tendency towards sign painting and the fact that Balincourt does not shy away from text in his work.
I think that’s important that Balincourt vacillates between direct and subjective work (as much as any work can be direct or subjective). One without the other is a cursory and uninteresting examination of the social issues at hand.
Balincourt also founded Starr Space (formally Starr Street Projects) a community space used for concerts, yoga, art events, and quinceanera celebrations.
http://www.zachfeuer.com/julesdebalincourt.html
Tags: artist
February 16th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
PS How do I get spaces in between my images? Or captions? I don’t seem to be able to get either of those things to work.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:03 am
You seem to be right. You can’t really add space between images manually — even if they are not floating. Essentially, you want to change the ‘padding’ or ‘margin’ attributes of the images via CSS or via ’styling’. So if you go into your CSS stylesheet in Wordpress Admin (Appearance -> Editor) and put in
.entry-content img {
margin:0 15px 10px 0;
}
,you will get a margin of empty space 15 px from the right of the image and 10 px from the bottom of the image.
If you want to modify the margin an individual image, you can go to the image properties in the post edit page, click on “Advanced Settings” at the top, and then type into the “styles” field: “margin:0 15px 10px 0;”.
As for captions, I am not sure why you would have problems. Are you going to the image properties and typing entering a caption into the “Edit Image Caption” field? That seems to work for me.
February 17th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Yeah, I changed the margins in the image “Advanced Settings” section, my style sheet tells me it’s not writable. I have no idea what’s up with that.
As to the margins issue, yeah that’s exactly what I was doing. I don’t know what’s up with that.