Installation view of Chris Ballantyne's mural at Park Life Gallery

Brooklyn-based artist Chris Ballantyne is currently in a three-person collaborative exhibition in San Francisco's Park Life gallery. The exhibition was chosen by ARTFORUM critic Glen Helfand as a pick of the month. Of Ballantyne's work in the show he writes:

Ballantyne’s view of disaster is more placid in his wall painting of blocky multistory buildings partially submerged in calmly rippling blue water—a stoic version of J. G. Ballard’s dystopian 1962 novel, The Drowned World. The artist also incorporates the gallery’s architecture—a hanging pipe cleanly pierces one of his buildings, fittingly enhancing the tone of controlled chaos.

Read the full ARTFORUM review here, and see Chris's two 20x200 editions:
Untitled, Tidal Bore (Surfer)
and
Untitled, Neighborhood (Overgrown)

Andrew Schoultz, Chris Ballantyne, Mark Mulroney
A collaboration
PARK LIFE
220 Clement Street | San Francisco
September 4–October 11