Alain Ballereau Alain Ballereau was born in Paris in 1956 and has lived and worked in Verdun-sur-Garonne, France since 1991. Alain majored in Art at the School of Arts appliqués et Métiers d’Art, Paris, France. From 1990 through 1997, Alain's work explored a sign world, lyrical and graphic, with an emphasis on neutral colors. From 1997 through 2003, he moved from classical framed canvas paintings to structural grid acrylic paintings on free frabrics (linen, cotton, worn sheets), representing wandering, unfinished stories. From 2004 to 2008, Alain's work evolved onto large format craft paper with vibrant layers of paint and pattern, quiet territories and geometric levels. From 2009 to 2013, his works became less abstract and more flexible and allusive as vast ideal landscapes with human presence. Every step of the way, Alain's painting requires the accident to determine the adventure. Harmony and balance is found between the unpredictable and the controlled gesture, spontaneity and sacrifice, between shadow and light, opacity and transparency. Private Exhibitions 2015 “Unfinished Stories” Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis (USA) 2013 Veronique Wantz Gallery, Minneapolis (USA) Peyrou Gallery, Sarlat-la-Canéda Cayrou Castel, Puy-l’Evêque Sainte-Croix Collegiate church, Loudun 2012 Head office of ARAPL, Toulouse Chapel of White Penitents, Gordes 2011 Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Cordes-sur-Ciel Le Sm’art, Aix-en-Provence Café Durand, Montauban 2010 349 Gallery, Beauzelle Avatar Gallery, Montauban 2009 Chez Jean Vidal, Saramon 2007 Le Carmel, Tarbes Un Toit une Toile, Bordeaux 2006 AC/APA/CPP Gallery, Bordeaux 2004 Croix-Baragnon area, Toulouse 2002 Cégetel services, Toulouse 2001 Cultural space, Verdun-sur-Garonne Acadie Gallery, Cajarc Liberty space, Crest 2000 Arts Walkway, Riguepeu 2000, 1997, 1994 Eiffel/Branly space, Paris 2001, 2000, 1999 Astarté Gallery, Paris 1999, 1997 Brigitte Griffault Gallery, Montauban 1997 Gustave studio (‘Astarté’), Paris Gallery of the Port, Crest 1996 Les Lumières Gallery, Nanterre Claudine Legrand Gallery, Paris 1995 Afrikaans Baaz’Art, Montauban 1994 Art 50 Gallery, Paris Espace Variétés Gallery, Saint-Gaudens 1993 Kandler Gallery, Toulouse 1992 Muscade Gallery, Paris 1992, 1991 Grand Palais, Paris 1990 Cultural space, Paul Ricard, Paris Collective Exhibitions 2013 D.X Gallery ‘Prints and Desire’, Bordeaux Ingres Museum, Contemporary creators, Montauban Acadie Gallery, Cajarc The Ceramic House, ‘Black is Beautiful’, Giroussens 2010, 2009 Avatar Gallery, Montauban Acadie Gallery, Cajarc D.X Gallery, ‘Crossing Gazes’, Bordeaux, Group show J.-C. Blais/C. Vaillat/A. Ballereau 2006 City Hall, Le Bouscat Arts Walkway, Lectoure 2003 Detours’03, Billère Artists Wishes, Toulouse, Paris, Lyon 2001 Bonetti Gallery, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val Diagonal of the Arts, Cahors, Region Council Prize 2000 Studio of the Lavoir, Sarlat 1999 Jesuite Chapel, ‘Balthazar’, Arles 1999, 1997, 1995 Former High School, ‘Great Formats’, Montauban 1997 Brigitte Griffault Gallery, Montauban Kandler Gallery, Toulouse Poudeous Castel, Verfeil Ingres Museum, Montauban Exhibition 'Recent paintings and sculptures', Courbevoie Contemporary Art Salon, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val 1996 Detours’96, Billère and Auch Contemporary Art Salon, Verdun-sur-Garonne Theater of the Sea, ‘Les Commun’Arts’, Sète 1995 Exhibition ‘Time, the Work and the Instant’, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 1994 Ingres Museum, Artists meetings, ‘Le proche et le lointain’, Montauban Beaux-Arts Museum, Pau 1993 Tours Castel, ‘Balthazar’, Tours, City of Saint-Gaudens Prize Artgument Gallery, ‘Balthazar’, Montbazon Askéo Gallery, Paris Montparnasse Station, ‘Paris-Washington’, Paris, October Salon Prize, Montauban 1992 Daphné Benh-Williame Gallery, Chartres Citadela Gallery, Prague Wetherhold Gallery, Washington D.C. Annie Mouilleron Gallery, Strasbourg 1991 Grand Palais, ‘Grands, Jeunes d’aujourd’hui’, Paris City Museum, Seoul (Korea) Contemporary Art Salon, Bagneux 1990 Grand Palais, ‘Jeune peinture’, Paris November Salon, Vitry .