Jules de Balincourt at Salon94 Bowery

Jules de Balincourt, Off Base, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012.
Jules de Balincourt, Off Base, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012.

Jules de Balincourt’s soldiers have a dazed, world-weary expression and, like Andy Warhol’s ‘Triple Elvis,’ each has at least one shadow character in near proximity.  In this detail from the larger painting ‘Off Base,’ the artist turns the mens’ face paint camouflage into Fauvist masks that resonate with a reinterpreted Matisse painting nearby. (At Salon94 Bowery, on the Lower East Side, through January 13th.)