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Julian Stanczak (Polish/American, 1928)
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Biography |
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1928 |
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Born in Borownica, Poland |
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1940 - 1942 |
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Concentration camp, Perm, Siberia |
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1942 - 1948 |
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Polish refugee camp, Uganda, Africa |
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1954 |
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Recieved BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art |
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1956 |
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Completed MFA at Yale University |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
Danese Gallery, New York (solo)
"Bars and Stripes" Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (group)
"Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical Art Since 1945"Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Julian & Barbara Stanczak " Beck Centerand the Cleveland Artists Foundation, Lakewood, Ohio (group) |
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2006 |
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"Op Art Revisited- Selections from the Albreight Knox Gallery" State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York (group)
"Color & Light" Eckert Fine Arts, Naples, Florida (group)
"Intersecting Pathways: The Art of Julian & Barbara Stanczak" niversity of Wisconsin, Madison (group)
"Optic Nerve- Perceptual Art from the 60’s" Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (group)
"The Optical Edge" Pratt Institute, New York (group)
"Director’s Choice" Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio (group)
"From Here To Infinity" Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (group)
"Julian Stanczak: Master of Op Art" Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: Constellation Series Paintings" Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (solo)
"Intersecting Pathways: Julian and Barbara Stanczak" Wisconsin Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Madison (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: Forty Years of Painting" McClain Fine Art, Houston, Texas (solo) |
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2005 |
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"Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retrospective)" Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio (solo)
"Julian Stanczak, Constellation and Color: Four Decades of Painting" Stefan Stux Gallery, New York (solo)
"Chroma: Prints by Julian Stanczak" Elevation Art, Cleveland, Ohio
"Timeless: An Eclectic Collection Spanning Two Centuries"Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida (group)
"Universal Medium" McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (group)
"Good Vibrations" McKenzie Fine Art, New York (group)
"Extreme Abstraction" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (group)
"Op Art: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Revisited" Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (group)
"Light and Movement" Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (group)
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2004 |
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"The Lead Chicken Award: Major Cleveland Painting at Mid-Century" Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio (group)
"The Abstract Eye: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona (group)
"High Art: Perspectives" Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida (group)
"Julian Stanczak, Master of Op Art: Highlights of the Past 40 Years" Stefan Stux Gallery, New York (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting" South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi,Texas (solo)
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2003 |
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"Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting" McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (solo)
“Pioneers of Nonobjective Painting”) and II (“Contemporary Nonobjective Painting”)], "Seeing Red: International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting" Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery and Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York (solo)
"Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists (Curated by Agnes Gund)" P.S. 1 Gallery, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York (solo)
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2002 |
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"Wired: Art That Moves" Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio (group)
"Inner Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (group)
"Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retrospective)" Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington (solo)
"Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retrospective)" Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: The Art of Perception" Eckert Fine Art Naples, Inc., Naples, Florida (solo)
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2001 |
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"Julian Stanczak, OP = Visual Poetics: 50 Year Retrospective" Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: Decades of Color" Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: Pioneer of Op Art, 50 Year Retrospective" Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (solo)
"Julian Stanczak: 50 Year Retrospective" Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)
"Color in the Eye" Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan (group)
"Harmonic Forms on the Edge: Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland" Cleveland Artists Foundation, The Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio (group)
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2000 |
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"Optical Perception: The Art of Julian Stanczak" Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina (solo)
"Color Function Serigraphs" Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas (group) |
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1999 |
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Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio (solo)
"POP(ular)/OP(tical): Art of the 60’s and 70’s from the Permanent Collection" Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (group)
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1998 |
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50 Year Retrospective, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (solo)
"Eyes Pop" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (group) |
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1997 |
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"Expanding Tradition: the Influence of Polish Artists in the US" DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois (group)
"Responses to Nature – Responses to Art" Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio (group) |
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1996 |
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"Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz" The Neil Rector Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (group) |
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1995 |
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"The Spirit of Cleveland: Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Fine Arts Prize 1961-1995" Canton Art Museum, ArtSpace Lima, The Riffe Gallery Columbus, and the Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood) (group)
"Action – Reaction: Julian and Barbara Stanczak" Lakeland Community College, Ohio (group) |
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1994 |
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"Abstraction & Geometry in Painting" Akron Museum, Akron, Ohio, (group) |
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1993 |
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"Julian Stanczak: Color=Form" The Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Michigan (solo) |
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1992 |
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44 Year Retrospective, David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo) |
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1991 |
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Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (solo)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
"Jestesmy" Ministerstwo Kulturi I Sztuki, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland (group) |
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1990 |
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The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (solo) |
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1989 |
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Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida (solo) |
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1988 |
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"Op & Pop" Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (group)
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan (solo) |
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1987 |
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Standard Oil Company World Headquarters, 10 year Retrospective, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)
"Art in the Embassies" Madrid, Spain (group) |
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1986 |
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Walker Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo) |
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1985 |
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"The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection" National Museum of American Art, Washington (group) |
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1984 |
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Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (solo)
"The Drackett Fine Art Collection" Cincinnati, Ohio (group) |
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1983 |
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Brubaker Gallery, Sarasota, Florida (solo)
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio (solo) |
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1982 |
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Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan (solo)
"Josef Albers: His Art and His Influence" Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey (group) |
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1981 |
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Sandusky Area Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio(solo)
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan(solo)
National Museum, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
"The Development of Optical Art"Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C(group) |
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1980 |
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Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (solo)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio(solo) |
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1979 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Artists from Yale"Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C (group)
"Visual Logic: Davis, Mieczkowski, Pearson, Stanczak" The Cleveland Institute of Art (group) |
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1978 |
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Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
A.S.A. Gallery, Oak Ridge, Tennessee (solo)
Kauffman Fine Arts, Houston, Texas(solo)
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)
International Monetary Fund and Care Medico, Washington, D.C. (solo) |
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1977 |
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"Modern Prints" University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (group) |
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1975 |
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Packard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada (solo)
Lakeland Community College, Mentor, Ohio (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Forms of Color" Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio (group)
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1974 |
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Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan (solo)
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.(solo)
Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
Alamo Gallery, Alamo, California (solo)
Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio (solo)
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1973 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio(solo)
Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
"American Contemporary Art"Youngstown, Ohio, (group)
"Stanczak – Anuszkiewicz" Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio(group) |
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1972 |
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Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan (solo)
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio (solo)
London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan (solo)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio(solo)
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
"Color Painting" Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (group) |
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1971 |
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Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (solo)
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio(solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
London Arts Gallery, London, England (solo)
"The Saalfield and Sundell Collections" Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio (group) |
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1970 |
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"Pittsburgh International"Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (group)
"Contemporary American Art"Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana (group) |
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1969 |
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Mackler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (solo)
Ray Packard Gallery, Akron, Ohio(solo)
London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan(solo)
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio (solo)
"The Square in Painting" Flint International, Flint Art Institute, Flint, Michigan,(group)
"Black White: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions" Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania (organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service) (group)
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1968 |
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Kent State University, Kent State, Ohio(solo)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (solo)
"Second Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today " Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (group) |
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1967 |
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"Three Generations: Albers, Vasarely, Stanczak" Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio (group)
"Contemporary Painting"Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (group)
"Pittsburgh International" Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (group) |
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1966 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Feingarten Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
"Paintings in the White House" Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (group)
"Yesterday and Today 1936 – 1966, American Abstract Artists" Riverside Museum, New York, (group) |
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1965 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin(solo)
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (solo)
"The Responsive Eye" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, (group)
"The Colorists"San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco, California
"Kinetic and Optical Art Today" Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York(group)
"Vibrations Eleven" Jackson Gallery, New York, New York (group) |
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1964 |
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio (solo)
"Motion and Movement" Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (group) |
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1963 |
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Edgecliff Academy of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo |
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1948 |
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Stanley Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya (solo) |
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Literature |
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2006 |
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OPTIC NERVE: Art and Design of the 60's, published and distributed by Merrell Publishing, London, with text by Dave Hickey and Joe Houston. |
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2005 |
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Morgan, Robert C. Julian Stanczak, Construction and Color: Four Decades of Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery |
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2004 |
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Fyfe, Joe, Agnes Gund and Dave Hickey. Julian Stanczak: Master of Op Art, Stefan Stux Gallery |
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2003 |
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Wilson-Powell, MaLin. Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting, McNay Museum of Art |
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1999 |
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Nill, Annegreth T. Julian Stanczak, Columbus Museum of Art |
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1998 |
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McClelland, Elizabeth. Julian Stanczak, Retrospective: 1948-1998, Butler Institute of American Art |
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1993 |
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Rand, Harry (poetry) and Julian Stanczak (images). Color/Color. Barbara Stanczak, editor
Shinners, Jacqueline and Rudolf Arnheim, Julian Stanczak: Color = Form, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College |
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1990 |
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Arnheim, Rudolf, Harry Rand, and Robert Bertholf. Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light, Poetry and Rare Book Collection, The University of Buffalo, N.Y. |
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1972 |
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Baro, Gene. Serigraphs and Drawings of Julian Stanczak 1970-1972, Corcoran Gallery of Art |
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1971 |
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Praeger Encyclopedia of Art, Praeger Publishers, N.Y. |
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