In his show Worlds Together, Worlds Apart, Jules de Balincourt presented us with a collision of images, both figurative and abstract, coexisting within the same orbit.  It's a fragmented free-associative narrative in which the viewer delves into different states of consciousness.  Recurring themes of escapism and utopia...  

“I am not interested in creating a singular themed show.  I allow images which are not directly related to one another to co-mingle without privileging any one visual form over another.  Whether a purely abstract, pixelated image or a more straight forward figurative piece, different image realms co-exist in (dis)harmony.  My process is pure intuition -- there are no preliminary steps; no sketches, no photos.  Sometimes I see the image on the white panel very early on.  Other times the painting begins as a few impulsive, childish strokes.  My process may participate in navel gazing, but that's a necessary pre-condition for exploring primal ideas.  I see the end products as visions of cultural detritus, fragments of disparate realities.  Rather than developing ideas borne out of some predetermined conceptual discourse or theme,  I make paintings as a human in Brooklyn in 2011 -- a biological receptor of a world gone mad. I observe sociological phenomena and attempt to unearth threads of cohesion among a bevy of boundless strands of disconnected information.  My interest is only to visually transmit these physical and metaphysical images I see, trying to both capture my own personal experience while doing something as foolish as painting the world.”