- Julian Stanczak
Julian Stanczak (born in
Borownica ,Poland onNovember 5 1928 ) is an American painter andprintmaker . The artist lives and works inSeven Hills, Ohio with his wife, the sculptor,Barbara Stanczak .Biography
Chad Mcsomething was born in eastern Poland in 1928. At the beginning of
World War II , Stanczak was forced into a Siberian labor camp, where he permanently lost the use of his right arm (he had been right-handed). In 1942, Stanczak (age 13) escaped from Siberia to join thePolish army-in-exile in Persia. After deserting from the army, he spent his teenage years in a hut in a Polish refugee camp inUganda, Africa . It was in Africa that Stanczak learned to paint (left-handed). He moved to England and then the United States, where he eventually settled inCleveland .In 2007, Stanczak was interviewed by
Brian Sherwin for Myartspace. During the interview Stanczak recalled his experiences with war and the loss of his right arm and how both influenced his art. Stanczak explained, "The transition from using my left hand as my right, main hand, was very difficult. My youthful experiences with the atrocities of the Second World War are with me,- but I wanted to forget them and live a "normal" life and adapt into society more fully. In the search for Art, you have to separate what is emotional and what is logical. I did not want to be bombarded daily by the past,- I looked for anonymity of actions through non-referential, abstract art." [ [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/07/art-space-talk-julian-stanczak.html "Art Space Talk: Julian Stanczak"] , "Myartspace",23 July 2007 . Retrieved15 July 2008 .]Education
Stanczak received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from theCleveland Institute of Art , ClevelandOhio in 1954, and trained underJosef Albers andConrad Marca-Relli at theYale University School of Art and Architecture, New HavenConnecticut , where he received hisMaster of Fine Arts in 1956.Works
The
Op Art movement was named for Stanczak’s first exhibition in New York. Held at the Martha Jackson Gallery in 1964, the exhibition was titled "Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings". His work was also included in theMuseum of Modern Art 's 1965 exhibition "The Responsive Eye". In 1966 Stanczak was named a "New Talent" by "Art in America" magazine. In the early 1960s he began to make the surface plane of the painting vibrate through his use of wavy lines and contrasting colors in works such as "Provocative Current" (1965). These paintings gave way to more complex compositions constructed with geometric rigidity yet softened with varying degrees of color transparency such as "Netted Green" (1972). In addition to being an artist, Stanczak was also a teacher, having worked at theArt Academy of Cincinnati from 1957-64 and asProfessor of Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, 1964-1995. He was named "Outstanding American Educator" by theEducators of America in 1970.tyle
Stanczak uses repeating forms to create compositions that are manifestations of his visual experiences. Stanczak's work is an art of experience, and is based upon structures of color. In the 1980s and 1990s Stanczak retained his geometric structure and created compositions with bright or muted colors, often creating pieces in a series such as "Soft Continuum" (1981; Johnson and Johnson Co. CT, see McClelland pl. 50). More recently, Stanczak has been creating large-scale series, comprised of square panels on which he examines variations of
hue andchroma in illusionistic color modulations, an example of which is "Windows to the Past" (2000; 50 panels).Public Collections
Ackland Art Museum , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North CarolinaAkron Art Museum , Akron, OhioAlbright-Knox Art Gallery , Buffalo, New YorkAllentown Art Museum , Allentown, PennsylvaniaAsheville Museum of Art , Asheville, North CarolinaBall State University Museum of Art , Muncie, IndianaBaum Gallery of Art , University of Central Arkansas, Conway, ArkansasBirmingham Museum of Art , Birmingham, AlabamaBryn Mawr College , Bryn Mawr, PennsylvaniaButler Institute of American Art , Youngstown, OhioCanton Museum of Art , Canton, OhioCarnegie Museum of Art , Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCentrum Sztuki Studio im Stanislawa I. Witkiewicza , Warsaw, PolandCleveland Artists Foundation , Lakewood, OhioCincinnati Art Museum , Cincinnati, OhioCleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, OhioColumbus Museum of Art , Columbus, OhioCorcoran Gallery of Art , Washington, DCDayton Art Institute , Dayton, OhioHerbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkHerron Gallery , Herron School of Art/IUPUI, Indianapolis, IndianaHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ,Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DCHood Museum of Art , Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HampshireHousatonic Museum of Art , Bridgeport, ConnecticutIndianapolis Museum of Art , Indianapolis, IndianaKalamazoo Institute of Arts , Kalamazoo, MichiganKemper Museum of Contemporary Art , Kansas City, MissouriKennedy Museum of Art , Ohio University, Athens, OhioKrannert Art Museum , University of Illinois, Champaign, IllinoisLowe Art Museum , University of Miami, Coral Gables, FloridaMasur Museum of Art , Monroe, LouisianaMcNay Art Museum , San Antonio, TexasThe Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, NYMIT List Visual Arts Center , Cambridge, MassachusettsKendall Campus Art Gallery , Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FloridaMiami University Art Museum , Oxford, OhioMilwaukee Art Museum , Milwaukee WisconsinMint Museum of Art , Charlotte, North CarolinaMontclair Art Museum , Montclair, New JerseyMuseum of Fine Arts , Boston, Boston, MassachusettsMuseum of Modern Art , New York, New YorkNational Gallery of Art ,Smithsonian Institution , Washington, DCNaples Museum of Art , Naples, FloridaNevada Museum of Art , Reno, NevadaNew Orleans Museum of Art , New Orleans, LouisianaNorth Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh, North CarolinaNorton Museum of Art , West Palm Beach, FloridaOklahoma City Art Museum , Oklahoma City, OklahomaOrange County Museum of Art , Newport Beach, CaliforniaOrlando Museum of Art , Orlando, FloridaPennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts , Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaPhoenix Art Museum , Phoenix, ArizonaPrinceton University Art Museum , Princeton, New JerseySan Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CaliforniaScottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art , Scottsdale, ArizonaSmithsonian American Art Museum , Washington, DCThe Snite Museum of Art , University of Notre Dame, Southbend, IndianaSpringfield Museum of Art , Springfield, OhioTamayo Museum , Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, MexicoUniversity at Buffalo Art Gallery , SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, New YorkThe University of Michigan Museum of Art , Ann Arbor, MichiganVictoria and Albert Museum , London, EnglandWake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery , Winston-Salem, North CarolinaFrederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MinnesotaFrederick R. Weisman Museum of Art , Pepperdine University, Malibu, CaliforniaWinnipeg Art Gallery , Winnipeg, Manitoba CanadaWorcester Art Museum , Worcester, MassachusettsBibliography
*Arnheim, Rudolf, Harry Rand and Robert Bertholf. "Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light" (University of Buffalo, Poetry and Rare Book Collection, 1990)
*McClelland, Elizabeth. "Julian Stanczak, Retrospective: 1948-1998" (Butler Institute of American Art , 1998)
*"Serigraphs and Drawings of Julian Stanczak 1970-1972" (exh. cat. by Gene Baro, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1972)
*"Julian Stanczak: Color = Form" (exh. cat. by Jacqueline Shinners and Rudolf Arnheim, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, 1993)References
External links
* [http://julianstanczak.net/ Julian Stanczak]
* [http://www.myartspace.com/blog/2007/07/art-space-talk-julian-stanczak.html Julian Stanczak interviewed by Brian Sherwin- myartspace.com]
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