--- title: 2017_Ballengee_Jerseyarts.com date: 2017-11-03T15:50:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-ballengee-jerseyarts-com" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg)Artists [ View With Images ](/artist_overview) Jump to: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A [ Arakawa ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/arakawa-) [ Conrad Atkinson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/conrad-atkinson) [ Eleanor Antin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/eleanor-antin) [ Ida Applebroog ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/ida-applebroog-) [ Jim Anderson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jim-anderson-) B [ Alexander Brodsky ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/alexander-brodsky) [ Brandon Ballengée ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [ Brodsky & Utkin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brodsky-utkin) [ Chris Burden ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/chris-burden-) [ Joseph Beuys ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/joseph-beuys) C [ Cassils ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/cassils) [ Keith Cottingham 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) Review: Sea of Vulnerability jerseyarts.com Oct 18, 2017 “I’m a frog guy working in a fish lab.” That’s the truth, but a bit of an understatement, when describing Brandon Ballengée. He’s a scientist – a post-doc fellow at Louisiana State University conducting research on fish and their survival in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He’s also an internationally acclaimed artist who’s been featured in The New York Times, the New Yorker, ARTnews, and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. “As a scientist, I have to collect that data and remove myself from that process, to just look at it as numbers,” says Ballengée. “But as a human being and as an artist, I’m allowed to explore the emotional complexity of that situation, and also what it means at this moment in history where there’s a larger story about the loss of so much biodiversity.” “Sea of Vulnerability*,*” a mid-career retrospective of Ballengée’s work, is a compelling, beautiful and unsettling exhibition at Rowan University Art Gallery in Glassboro, which opened September 14 and runs through November 5, 2017. **[Read more here](http://features.jerseyarts.com/content/index.php/nj-visual-arts/2017/09/sea-of-vulnerability-an-exhibition-by-scientist-artist-brandon-ballengee-at-rowan-university-art-gallery/)** Related News & Press Sep 19, 2017 [ ![Ballengee Collapse 2012 Mixed Media Installation Detail 3](/assets/exhibition_images/Balleng%C3%A9e/2012/Ballengee-Collapse-2012-mixed-media-installation-DETAIL-3.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-ballengee-whit-online) Sep 19, 2017 The Whit [Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [Art and biology intersect in “Sea of Vulnerability"](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-ballengee-whit-online) Sep 13, 2017 [ ![Balelengee Rip Audubons Bighorn Sheep After John James Audubon 2016 Red](/assets/exhibition_images/Balelengee-RIP-Audubons-Bighorn-Sheep-After-John-James-Audubon-2016_Red.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/brandon-balleng%C3%A9es-sea-of-vulnerability-opens-at-the-rowan-university-art-gallery) Sep 13, 2017 [Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [Brandon Ballengée at the Rowan University Art Gallery](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/brandon-balleng%C3%A9es-sea-of-vulnerability-opens-at-the-rowan-university-art-gallery) Oct 30, 2017 [ ![Ballengee 560X350](/assets/exhibition_images/ballengee-560x350.png) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-ballengee-state-of-the-arts-1) Oct 30, 2017 State of the Arts New Jersey [Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brandon-balleng%C3%A9e) [The Art of Science: Brandon Ballengée](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-ballengee-state-of-the-arts-1) Nov 06, 2017 [ November Exhibitions ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-november-exhibitions) Nov 06, 2017 Ronald Feldman Gallery [November 2017 Exhibition Announcements](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-november-exhibitions) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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