Jules de Balincourt

Known for: bird's-eye-view landscape painting of American life

Jules de Balincourt grew up between France and the United States and has developed a practice of brightly colored, bird's-eye-view landscape paintings that treat the American landscape — its suburbs, strip malls, sports fields, public spaces — with a satirical lightness that draws on folk painting, cartography, and children's illustration. He is based in New York and New Orleans. His work reflects a consistent interest in the tension between utopian aspiration and social reality in American life.