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Jerome “Jerry” Wallace is an American ballet dancer, painter, Batik artist, dramatic performer and director who has lived most of his life on the island of Kauaï, Hawaii. He was noted as America’s foremost aesthetic and technical innovator in the ancient art of batik. He is widely known for reviving Batik art in the western world after learning the craft in his travels in Indonesia.

Early life
A native of Portsmouth, Ohio, Jerome is the son of Alexander Klotsche Wallace and Fairybelle Lorella Mayo Wallace. His mother was a professional ballet dancer with the Fokine Ballet Company, traveling in Europe and the USA. His father was a house painter and “Sunday” painter throughout his life.

Formal Education
Wallace began his formal education at Carnegie-Mellon University and Texas Christian University (1949-1952) where he studied painting and drama. Later in life he completed a B.F.A. in Theatre and Drama (1991) and a M.F.A. (Magna Cum Laude) in Theatre and Drama (1994) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Beginnings in Dance
Wallace began his artistic career in dance, following the footsteps of his mother who was an international ballet dancer. He ventured to New York City where he performed in various dance and chorus roles in Broadway musicals. After his years in New York, Wallace transitioned to Hollywood where he earned his living in ballet and musical comedy and in modeling. His dancing career came to an end after a broken foot on a sound stage at Paramount Studios. It was while he was convalescing in Europe that he became interested in the potential of ethnic crafts, particularly the spinning and looming of textiles.

Artistic Laborers in California
He returned to California and

Studying Natural Dyes & Textiles
Jerome spent several months on the island of Bali, Indonesia exploring the indigenous techniques of batik which have remained unchanged for 800 years.

Batik Man of Kauai
In 1962, Jerome settled permanently in Kauai where he quickly became known as the “Batik Man of Kauai.” Fusing the experience of art with his own life experience, Wallace uncovered and devised new ways of creating batiks that he terms “peinture-batiks.”

“Happy Hermit Batik Kit”

International Recognition in Visual Arts
To date, Jerome Wallace has been involved in more than ninety one-man exhibitions, both in the United States and abroad in many European countries.

Dance and Chorus roles in Broadway musicals

 * 1952-1953 Wish You Were Here, Imperial Theater, New York City
 * 1953 Hazel Flagg, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City
 * 1954 Wonderful Town, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City
 * 1955 Naughty Marietta, live Telecast, New York City
 * Wonderful Good
 * Radio City Music Hall
 * 1956 The California Story, San Diego, California
 * 1956 Soiree de Ballet, Nikita Talin, Dallas, Texas

Commissioned Visual Art Work
1978 “Androgynous I and Androgyne I”  The Works of Art in Public Places Program, Mayor’s Culture and Arts Office,  City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii

1976 G. N. Wilcox Memorial Chapel Commission, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, 1976

1975 “Ask the Rose,” batik, 41 x 38. Commissioned by HSFCA - Art in Public Places Program http://dags.hawaii.gov/sfca/app/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pid=14801#top_display_media

1970 “He Said His Name was Kip,” batik. Commissioned by the National Museum of Sweden http://emp-web-22.zetcom.ch/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=artist&objectId=3834&viewType=detailView

1970 “In a Barrel of Indigo the Ripples are Melting,” batik, 41 x 180. Commissioned by HSFCA - Art in Public Places Program http://dags.hawaii.gov/sfca/app/gallery/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pid=18873#top_display_media

1969 “This Butterfly Wing Balancing on the Edge of Eternity Reflecting a Sliver of Moons – Hanalei 1967,” largest batik painting in the world (40’ X 15’),  commissioned by the Janet Rice Wichman Foundation, Kauai, Hawaii, and hung in the Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii.

1969 “NOW, is the Best Time for Everything,” batik, 41 x 38. Commissioned by HSFCA - Art in Public Places Program

Major Exhibitions
# Musee des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France http://www.bibliotheque.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr/opac/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=49370 # Maison de la Culture, Rennes, France # Musee Bastion, Antibes, France # Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France # Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain # Man and Art Museum, Milan, Italy # Arts and Crafts Museum, Zurich, Switzerland # Arts and Crafts Museum, Hamburg, Germany # Liljevalche Museum, Stockholm, Sweden # Municipal Museum, Warsaw, Poland # College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland # City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England # Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium # Arts and Crafts Museum, Cologne, Germany http://www.mba-lyon.fr/static/mba/contenu/pdf/expos/Expos-du-mbal-1876-2015.pdf http://sabf.fr/expo/ancien/ancexpo.php https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Forney http://newspaperarchive.com/us/ohio/portsmouth/portsmouth-times/1970/10-03 (traveling to twenty other American Museums)
 * 2011 Cinquantenaire Exposition, Institut Franco Americain, Rennes, France
 * 2011 Artists of Hawai’i 2011 Art Exhibition sponsored by the Honolulu Academy of Arts
 * 1998 Solo Exhibit, Sisu Gallery, Honolulu
 * 1997 Fashion Victims Exhibit, Sisu Gallery, Honolulu
 * 1993 University of Michigan Cultural Center
 * 1984 Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * 1982 Old Jail Foundation, Albany, Texas
 * 1982 Amber Galleries, San Rafael, California
 * 1981 M. Okada Cultural Services Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1981 Edward-Dean Museum of Decorative Arts, Apple Valley, California
 * 1980 Hamburg-Hauses Eimsbuttle, Hamburg, Germany
 * 1980 Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
 * 1978 Howards, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1977 Honolulu Hale, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1977 New Directions in Fabric Design, Towson State University, Baltimore Maryland
 * 1975, 1976 Bi-Centennial European Tour of Objects USA Exhibition
 * 1975, 1976 Bi-Centennial European Tour of Objects USA Exhibition
 * 1975 American Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark
 * 1975 Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
 * 1975 Nordenfjellske Kunstindustrimuseet, Throndheim, Norway
 * 1975 Palais des Congress et de la Jeunessess, Perignam, France
 * 1974 Skien’s Kunstforening, Skien, Norway
 * 1974 American Embassy, Oslo, Norway
 * 1974 Galleri F-15, Moss, Norway
 * 1974 Wings of Eden Gallery, Kauai, Hawaii
 * 1973 Scottsdale Fine Arts Commission, Scottsdale, Arizona
 * 1973 American Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden
 * 1973 Cultural Center, Ghent, Belgium
 * 1973 Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
 * 1972 Cathedral de Chartres, Bishop’s Palace, Chartres, France
 * 1972 Salon d’Alexandre, Paris, France
 * 1972 Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
 * 1972 Musee Municipal de Brest, Brest, France
 * 1972 Bibliotheque Forney, Paris, France
 * 1971-1975, Downtown Gallery Downstairs Ltd., Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1971 Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris
 * 1971 Hawaii Painters & Sculptors League, Honolulu
 * 1971 Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
 * 1971 Ancien Hotel des Archeveques de Sens, Paris, France
 * 1970 Festival of the Arts, Oakland, California
 * 1970 Portsmouth Area Arts Council, Portsmouth, Ohio
 * 1970 Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
 * 1970 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
 * 1970 Jack London Square Festival, Oakland
 * 1970 Bob Newman Designers Gallery, Portsmouth, Ohio
 * 1970 Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
 * 1970 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1969 American Tour of Objects USA, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
 * 1969 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * 1969 Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * 1968 First Invitational Exhibition of Crafts, University of New Mexico
 * 1968 Lee Nordness Gallery, New York, New York
 * 1968 Galleri Brinkin, Stockholm, Sweden
 * 1968 Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * 1967 Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
 * 1965 Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii

Major Personal & Institutional Collections

 * Juliet Rice Wichman Foundation, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Kauai Museum, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * Swedish National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
 * Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger, Norway
 * Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
 * Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
 * Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
 * Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
 * Musee Municipal de Brest, Brest, France
 * Musee de Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
 * John Gregg Allerton Collection, Kauai/Oahu, Hawaii
 * Ira Wender Collection, New York, New York
 * Gaylord Wilcox Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Rhee Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Ostheimer Collection, New Mexico / Hawaii
 * Othmar Schynder Collection, Lucerne, Switzerland
 * Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts
 * State Library, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
 * Kappa Library, Kapaa, Kauai, Hawaii
 * Wilcox Memorial Hospital Chapel, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
 * Richard Goshman Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * The Johnson Wax Collection, Racine, Wisconsin
 * Hyatt Regency Collection of Wisconsin Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * Carol and Mary, Ltd. Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Cutting, Smith & Haworth Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Castlel & Cook Collection, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Twigg-Smith Collection, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii
 * Von Bohlen Holback Collection, Germany / Morocco

Publications & Video Documentaries about Jerome Wallace
Batik, à travers l'expérience de Jerome Wallace. La Société des amis de la Bibliothèque Forney, les Services culturels américains. 16 décembre 1971-29 janvier 1972, Ancien hôtel des archevêques de Sens ... Paris ... [Bibliothèque Forney.]

Batiks de Kauaï : Jerome Wallace. Mulhouse : Musée de l'impression sur étoffes, 1975.

“Solar Opus” 1975

Eyer, Cynthia. “Jerome Wallace: Zipper on the Generation Gap,” Honolulu Magazine, January 1970.

Gallagher, Dave, producer/director. Jerome Wallace: a batik experience [Honolulu : Hawaii ETV Network, 1989]. Video #2247, Sinclair Library, University of Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Goodman, Robert, Gavan Daws & Ed Sheehan. The Hawaiians. (Island Heritage, Traveler’s Edition, 1971).

Hucher, Yvews. “Une exposition et une film dans le cadre du bicentennaire des Etats-Unis.” Nice Martin. 21/4/1976, Nice, France.

Hucher, Yvews. “Nice Marvels at Wallace Show” (translation in English). Garden Island. July 19, 1976, Kauai, Hawaii.

Le Bihan, Rene. “Jerome Wallace, or the Magic of Painting.” Director of the Musee Municipal de Brest, 1979 Exhibit Catalogue, Brest, France.

Le Gro, W. T. “Portrait of an Artist as Worker, Worrier, Businessman.”  Beacon Magazine of Hawaii. August, 1971.

Meilach, Dona Z. Contemporary Batik and Tie-Dye. Crown Publishers, 1973. Pages 54, 55, 71, 152, color plate between 88 & 89.

Rozmiarek, Joseph T. “Many Moons: Kid Stuff That’s a Marvel of Many Stage Effects.”  Honolulu Advertiser. January 15, 1978.

Taylor, Lois. “A Batik Wizard Tries New Magic.” Honolulu Star Bulletin. B1/5, 1987.

Von Adleman, Jan. “On the Parfume of Jerome.” Chairman, Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Long Beach, California Museum catalogue.