INOVA gallery in Milwaukee<\/a>. Very theatrical, lovely installations, precursors to relational art, some funny prints and drawings and time lines and maps. Definitely worth a visit. From the INOVA site:<\/p>\n“This exhibition surveys Balk’s work from the 1990s ‘napkin’ drawings project (historical timelines drawn in marker on cloth dining napkins) to his current “Planck State” particle interaction images and beyond. Through a complex, winding style of narrative exposition, built with photographs of Middle Eastern street life, fanciful subatomic depictions, and scraps of text, Balk investigates the constituent material of reality as it shapes and forms cultures that reshape and reform the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
February 6-March 13, 2009 Inova\/Kenilworth (Milwaukee) 2155 North Prospect Avenue Artist reception: February 6, 6-9 pm Really fascinating show – his first retrospective – at the INOVA gallery in Milwaukee. Very theatrical, lovely installations, precursors to relational art, some funny prints and drawings and time lines and maps. Definitely worth a visit. 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