"Formalistically, Ballen’s work is delightfully off-center and wiggy in its inscrutability. Although it compels a pedestrian reading, his art is a strong intellectual assertion of the elusiveness of representation and the multiple readings for artwork simulating reality."
---Glen Mannisto, “Scrap mettle,” Metro Times, August 3, 2005.
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Christopher Bedford, Artforum, March 2008
Lynn Crawford, The Brooklyn Rail, February, 2008
R.C. Baker, Village Voice, January 2-8, 2008
