Jack Zajac

Jack Zajac is an American artist who was born December 13, 1929 in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1946, his family moved to southern California. After he graduated from high school, he got a job at Kaiser Steel Mill. This experience helped finance his attendance at art school at Scripps College in Claremont, California. In 1948, he won a scholarship at a California State Fair student exhibition in Sacramento. He was named recipient of the Purchase Prize at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1950, which led to his first one man exhibit. He is known for his sculptures in bronze and marble, as well as his figurative paintings. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. His work has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Felix Landau Gallery (Los Angeles), the Winfield Gallery (Los Angeles), the Art Institute of Chicago, John Young Gallery (Honolulu, Hawaii), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and Banco Di Roma, (Rome). He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) are among the public collections holding works by Jack Zajac.

References

*Nunberg, Geoffrey, “Jack Zajac; Falling Water: 1962-1987”, Steven Wirtz Gallery, 1987
*Seldis, Henry J. & Ulfert Wilke, “The Sculpture of Jack Zajac”, Galland Press, Los Angeles, 1960

External links

* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/18341/jack-zajac.html ArtNet]
* [http://www.paccd.cc.ca.us/library/artists/jack_zajac.htm Jack Zajac, 1929-]