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Julian Stanczak: The Eighties

Past exhibition
September 7 - October 26, 2019
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Julian Stanczak: The Eighties

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is very pleased to announce The Eighties, our third solo exhibition with Julian Stanczak. This installation of fifteen paintings made between 1982-1990 explores Stanczak's skillful use of gradations of color and form to create a subtle experience of light. In essence and outlook they are also emotional landscapes, an effort to transcend the surface containment of the painting as object and connect with the viewer in a perceptual way. Stanczak lived and worked in Cleveland, Ohio, but wrote about the impact on his painting of his life as a Polish refugee in Uganda, and the simultaneous beauty of the African landscape. “When I see the dramatic shapes and colors of nature, observe their power, it triggers in me the need to translate these primordial forces.”

Julian Stanczak (1928 – 2017) was an American painter and printmaker, and a pioneer of Op Art. His early life was marked by enormous personal struggle, and equally by his commitment to an uplifted outlook informed by art and music. He was born in Poland, and when World War II broke out, he was sent to a concentration camp in Siberia. In 1942, after his escape, he lived as a refugee in Uganda, where he learned to paint with his left hand (he lost the use of his right arm for good at the Siberian camp). He immigrated to the United States in 1950, received his BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1954, and the M.F.A from Yale University in 1956, where he studied with Josef Albers and Conrad Marca-Relli. His work has been included in exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally from 1948 to the present day. Important group shows include The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1965; Paintings in the White House at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1966; and Ghosts in the Machine at the New Museum, New York, 2012. 

 

Significant surveys of his work include Julian Stanczak: 50 Year Retrospective, Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, 2001; and currently, Full Sprectrum: Paintings, Drawings and Prints of Julian Stanczak; Wood and Stone Sculptures of Barbara Stanczak, a retrospective at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana. 

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Barbara Stanczak, Krzys Stanczak, Neil Rector, and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC, in the organization of this exhibition.

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Works
  • Julian Stanczak Homage, 1990 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Homage, 1990
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Soft Beat, 1988 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Soft Beat, 1988
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Upraise, 1987 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Upraise, 1987
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Duality in System, 1982 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Duality in System, 1982
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Offering White, 1991 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Offering White, 1991
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Touching Purple, 1986 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Touching Purple, 1986
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Dark Secrets II, 1986 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Dark Secrets II, 1986
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Lavender, 1984-85 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Lavender, 1984-85
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Dark Secrets I, 1986 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Dark Secrets I, 1986
    Acrylic on canvas
  • Julian Stanczak Projecting in Change, 1988 Acrylic on canvas
    Julian Stanczak
    Projecting in Change, 1988
    Acrylic on canvas
Installation Views
  • Julian Stanczak Diane Rosenstein Gallery Installation View 2019
  • Installation View 5
  • Installation View 10
  • Installation View 3
  • Installation View 13
  • Installation View 17
  • Installation View 16
  • Installation View 19
Press
  • Julian Stanczak, Opposing Pair I & II, 1983

    Los Angeles Times: A walker’s guide to gallery hopping along Highland Avenue

    Sharon Mizota, September 30, 2019
  • Visual Art Source: Julian Stanczak: The Eighties

    David S. Rubin, September 14, 2019

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