Julian Stanczak

Biography

Chronology

Lives and works in Seven Hills, Ohio

Teaching

Art Academy of Cincinnati and University of Cincinnati.

Professor of Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art.
Numerous instances as artist-in-residence, visiting artist, or visiting lecturer.

Solo Exhibitions

Museum of Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Julian Stanczak"

Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida, "Julian Stanczak: Master of Op Art"
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, "Julian Stanczak: Constellation Series Paintings"
Wisconsin Union Galleries, University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, "intersecting Pathways: Julian and Barbara Stanczak"
McClsin Fine Art, Houston, Texas, "Julian Stanczak: Forty Years of Painting"

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, "Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retrospective)"
Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, New York, "Julian Stanczak, Constellation and Color: Four Decades of Painting"
Elevation Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Chroma: Prints by Julian Stanczak"

Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, New York, "Julian Stanczak, Master of Op Art:Highlights of the Past 40 Years"
South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, Texas, "Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting"

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, "Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting"

Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, Washington, "optical Reaction:The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retrospective)"
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida, "Optical Reaction: The Art of Julian Stanczak (50 Year Retropspective)
Eckert Fine Art Naples, Inc., Naples, Florida. "Julian Stanczak: The Art of Perception"

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, "Julian Stanczak, OP=Visual Poetics: 50 Year Retrospective"
Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan, "Julian Stanczak: Decades of Color"
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, "Julian Stanczak: Pioneer of Op Art, 50 Year Retrospective"
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Julian Stanczak: 50 Year Retrospective"

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 50 Year Retrospective

The Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Michigan, "Julian Stanczak: Color=Form," Retrospective exhibition

David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 44 Year Retrospective

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, retrospective exhibition

Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Standard Oil Company World Headquarters, 10 year retrospective, Cleveland, OH

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Walker Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Brubaker Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Sandusky Area Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

International Monetary Fund and Care Medico, Washington, D.C.
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Kauffman Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
A.S.A. Gallery, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Miller gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Kingpitcher Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Marjorie Kauffman Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Lakeland Community College, Mentor, Ohio
Packard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
Alamo Gallery, Alamo, California
Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, California
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC

Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

London Arts Gallery, London, England
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
Ray Packard Gallery, Akron, Ohio
Mackler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Kent State University, Kent State, Ohio

Feingarten Gallery, Los Angeles
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Edgecliff Academy of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio

Stanley Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

Selected Group Exhibitions

"Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s," San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, travel venues pending

"Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s." Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
"The Optical Edge," Pratt Institute of Art, New York, New York
"Op Art Revisited-Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
"Director's Choice," Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
"A View Within," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
"The Cleveland Institute of Art: 125 Year Anniversary Exhibition," Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
"After Image: Op Art of the 1960s," Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
"Selections from the Permanent Collection of the UB Anderson Gallery," State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, New York
"Op Art: Then and Now," Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
"To Be Named", D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, New York
"Visual Virations: Perceptual Art," Neuberger Museum of Art, State University New York (SUNY), Purchase, New York

"Op Art Revisited: Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery," New York State, Museum, Albany, New York
"Geometric Abstraction and Color Function: Two Generations," D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, New York
"Josef Albers: To Open Eyes," Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan "A Century of American Art," D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, New York

"Timeless: An Eclectic Collection Spanning two Centuries," Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida
"Universal Medium," McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Good Vibrations," McKenzie Fine Art, New York, New York
"Extreme Abstraction," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
"Op Art: The Responsive Eye' Revisited," Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
"Op Art and Color Field Painting," Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

"Light and Movement," Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

"The Lead Chicken Award: Major Cleveland Painting at Mid-Century," Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
"The Abstract Eye: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
" High Art: Perspectives," Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida

"Seeing Red: International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting," Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery and Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York [Participating in both parts I ("Pioneers of Nonobjective Painting") and II ("Contemporary Nonobjective Painting")]
"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

"Wired: Art That Moves," Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
"Inner Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

Harmonic Forms on the Edge: Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland," Cleveland Artists Foundation, The Beck center for the Arts, Cleveland Ohio
"Color in the Eye," Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan

"Color Function Serigraphs," Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central, Arkansas, Conway Arkansas

"Pop(ular)/Op(tical): Art of the 60's and 70's from the Permanent  Collection," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana

"Eyes Pop," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

"Expanding Tradition: the influence of Polish Artists in the US," DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
"Responses to Nature-Responses to Art," Julian & Barbara Stanczak, Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio

"Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz," The Neil Rector Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina

"Action-Reaction: Julian and Barbara Stanczak," Lakeland Community College
"The Spirit of Cleveland: Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Fine Arts Prize 1961- 1995," The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, continued(1996) to Canton Art Museum. ArtSpace (Lima), The Riffe Gallery (Columbus), and the Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood)

"Abstraction & Geometry in Painting," Akron Museum, Akron, Ohio

"Julian Stanczak, Clayton Pond: Prints," The Upstairs Gallery, Ithica, New York

"Jestemy, Ministerstwo Kulturi I Sztuki. Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland

"Op & Pop," Worchester Art Museum, Massachusetts

"Art in the Embassies," Madrid, Spain

"The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection," National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

"The Drackett Fine Art Collection," Cincinnati, Ohio

"The Cleveland Institute of Art: the First 100 Years, 1882-1982" Cleveland Institute of Art. Cleveland, Ohio

"Josef Albers: His Art and His Influence," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

"The Development of Optical Art, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

"Artists from Yale," Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC
"Visual Logic: Davis, Mieczkowski, Pearson, Stanczak," The Cleveland Institute of Art (traveled to Parsons School of Design and New Gallery of Contemporary Art)

"Modern Prints." University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland

"Forms of Color," Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio

"American Contemporary Art," Youngstown, Ohio
"Stanczak-Anuszkiewicz," Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio

"Color Painting," Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

"The Saalfield and Sundell Collections," Mansfield Art Cente, Mansfield, Ohio

"Pittsburgh International," Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Contemporary American Art," Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana

"The Square in Painting," Flint International, Flint Art Institute, Flint, Michigan
"Black White: Exhibition of Paintings and Contructions, "Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania (organized bt the Smithsonian Institution Traveling   Exhibition Service)

"Second Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today," Albright Knox Art Gallery, NY

"Pittsburgh International," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Contemporary Painting," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
"Three Generations: Albers, Vasarely, Stanczak," Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

"Painting in tha White House," Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
"Yesterday and Today 1936-1966, American Abstract Artists," Riverside Museum, New York

"The Responsive Eye," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"The Colorists," 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
"Kinetic and Optical Art Today, "Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
"Vibrations Eleven," Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York

"Motion and Movement," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Awards

"Viktor Schreckengost Award," Cleveland Institute of Art

"Medel of Excellence," Cleveland Institute of Art

"Best of Show" nomination, International Platform Association, Washington DC

"Best of Show" nomination, International Platform Association, Washington DC

"Best of Show" nomination, International Platform Association, Washington DC

"Best of Show" nomination, International Platform Association, Washington DC

"Award for Excellence in Painting," Ohio Arts Council, Governor Gilligan presiding

"Outstanding American Educator," Educators of America

"Ohio Fine Arts Award," Women's City Club, Cleveland, OH

"Cleveland Fine Arts Prize for Visual Arts," Cleveland Foundation for the Arts

"New Talent, U.S.A," Art in America, along with Donald Judd, Robert Morris, R.B. Kitaj and others

First Prize and Purchased Award, "30th Midyear Show," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

First Prize and Purchased Award, "Artists of Southern Ohio," Dayton, OH
First Prize, "Third Interior Valley Competition," Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Selected Books

Optic Nerve: Art and Design of the 60's, published and distributed by Merrell     
Publishing, London, with text by Dave Hickey and Joe Houston

Morgan, Robert C., Julian Stanczak, Construction and Color: Four Decades of Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery.

Fyfe, Joe, Agnes Gund and Dave Hickey. Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery

Wilson-Piwell, LaLin. Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting, McNay Museum of Art.

Nill, Annegrath T. Julian Stanczak, Columbus Museum of Art

McClelland, Elizabeth. Julian Stanczak, Retrospective 1948-1998, Butler Institute of American Art

Shinner, Jacqueline and Rudolf Arnheim, Julian Stanzcak: Color = Form, Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College

Museum Collections

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, PA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana
Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AK
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburh, PA
Centrum Sztuki Studio im Stanislawa I. Witkiewicza, Warsaw, Poland
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Corocoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C.
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art/IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI
Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, OGH
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CO
LoweArt Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raliegh, NC
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Southbend, IN
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Tamayo Museum, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Toldeo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
University at Buffalo Art Gallery, SUNY-Buffalo, NY
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Public Collections

AAir Products & Chemicals, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Alcoa, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
American Greetings, Cleveland, Ohio
Ameritrust Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
David Anderson Collection, Buffalo, New York
American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Atlantic Ridgefield Company, New York
Art Collection of the First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, Baltimore, Maryland
The Bank of New York, New York
Cardinal Federal Savings Associations, Cleveland, Ohio
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
Champion International, Hamilton, Ohio
Chase Manhattan Bank Collection, New York, NY
Central Cadillac Company, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio
Cincinnati Bell Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati Microwave Company, Cincinnati, Ohio
Detroit Edison Company, Detroit, Michigan
Digital Equipment Corporation, Stow, Massachusetts
Drackett Fine Art Collection, Cincinnati, Ohio
Duke Power Company, Durham, North Carolina
Dusquense Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Etzhold Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
Gail W. Feingarten-Oppenheimer Collection, Beverly Hills, California
First National Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
First National Bank of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
Gund Foundation, New York, NY
Hewlett Packard, Palo Alto, California
Senator Javitz Collection, New York, NY
Johnson & Johnson Fine Art Collection, Connecticut
Jones, Day, Reaves & Pogue Law Firm, Cleveland, Ohio
Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland, Ohio
Senator Metzenbaum Collection, Washington, DC
National Bank of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Nelson B. Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY
Nissan Company, Nashville, Tennessee
Northern States Power, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Owens Corning Fiberglass Collection, Toledo, Ohio
Plain Dealer Headquarters, Cleveland, Ohio
Prescott, Ball & Turben Company, Cleveland, Ohio
The Provident National Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio
Neil K. Rector Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
Smith, Barney & Company, New York, NY
Society Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Sprint Incorporated, St. Louis, Missouri
St. John Unitarian Church, Cincinnati, Ohio
Taft Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
Trade Bank & Trust Company, New York, NY
United Parcel Service, New York, NY
USX Corporation Collection, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Wasserman Development Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts