Julian Stanczak

Julian Stanczak

Julian Stanczak (born in Borownica, Poland on November 5 1928) is an American painter and printmaker. The artist lives and works in Seven 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 the Polish army-in-exile in Persia. After deserting from the army, he spent his teenage years in a hut in a Polish refugee camp in Uganda, 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 in Cleveland.

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. Retrieved 15 July 2008.]

Education

Stanczak received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Ohio in 1954, and trained under Josef Albers and Conrad Marca-Relli at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven Connecticut, where he received his Master 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 the Museum 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 the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1957-64 and as Professor of Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art, 1964-1995. He was named "Outstanding American Educator" by the Educators 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 and chroma 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 Carolina

Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina

Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana

Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas

Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Centrum Sztuki Studio im Stanislawa I. Witkiewicza, Warsaw, Poland

Cleveland Artists Foundation, Lakewood, Ohio

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art/IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, Louisiana

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin

Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Southbend, Indiana

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio

Tamayo Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

University at Buffalo Art Gallery, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Bibliography

*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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