Julian Stanczak

Julian Stanczak is best known for his illusory “see-through” abstractions and “grid” paintings, which have been at the core of his art-making practice for the past five decades. His various methods for producing optical effects on canvas, including his use of color—contrasting, physical mixing or varying proportions of just one color—in combination with other techniques, such overlapping planar shapes or lines in compositions; defining shapes with hard or diffuse edges; adding vertical or horizontal lines to activate the surfaces; and layering dots, dashes and triangles in contrasting colors on the surfaces to produce vibrational effects. But more than creating optical effects, his art making practice is about color and the sensations and emotions that color can evoke, which are personal and unique to each viewer.

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Solo Exhibitions

 

 

2015
Cincinnati Art Museum, "Julian Stanczak: Color–Color", Cincinnati, OH

 

2014
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, "Julian Stanczak: from Life", Chelsea, New York, NY
David Richard Contemporary, "Lineal Pathways", Santa Fe, NM

 

2013-2014
Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University Exhibitions
Celebrating the Life and Work of Julian Stanczak,
"Genesis of Perceptual Art" (9-11/13),
"Through the Looking Glass" (11-12/13),
"Substance and Illusion" (1-2/14),
"New Dimensions of Color" (3-4/14)

The Year of Stanczak Celebrations, Akron Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University Lectures & Exhibitions

 

2013
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, "Line Color Illusion: 40 Years of Collecting Julian Stanczak"

David Richard Contemporary, "Central Grids", Santa Fe, NM

 

2011
David Richard Contemporary, "Elusive Transparencies", Santa Fe, NM

 

2010
Denese Gallery, New York, New York

 

2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

CB Collection Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan

 

2008
Danese Gallery, New York, New York

Cleveland Artists Foundation,Cleveland, Ohio

 

2007
Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

Canton Art Museum, Canton, Ohio, "Director's Choice"

Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Julian Stanczak"

 

2006
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"

McClain Fine Art, Houston, Texas, "Julian Stanczak: Forty Years of Painting"

 

2005
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"

 

2004
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"

 

2003
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, "Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting"

 

2002
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 Retrospective)"

Eckert Fine Art Naples, Inc., Naples, Florida, "Julian Stanczak: The Art of Perception"

 

2001
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"

 

2000
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina, "Optical Perception: The Art of Julian Stanczak"

 

1999
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

 

1998
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 50 Year Retrospective

 

1993
The Dennos Museum, Traverse City, Michigan, "Julian Stanczak:
Color = Form", Retrospective exhibition

 

1992
David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 44 Year Retrospective

 

1991
Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

1990
The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

 

1989
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, retrospective exhibition

 

1988
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

1987
Standard Oil Company World Headquarters, 10 year Retrospective, Cleveland, Ohio

 

1986
Walker Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.

 

1984
Charles Foley Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

 

1983
Brubaker Gallery, Sarasota, Florida

The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

 

1982
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

 

1981
Sandusky Area Cultural Center, Sandusky, Ohio

Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

 

1980
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

 

1979
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

 

1978
Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

A.S.A. Gallery, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Kauffman Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

International Monetary Fund and Care Medico, Washington, D.C.

 

1978
Marjorie Kauffman Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Kingpitcher Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

 

1975
Packard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Lakeland Community College, Mentor, Ohio

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

 

1974
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, California

Alamo Gallery, Alamo, California

Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio

 

1973
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

 

1972
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Lantern Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio

London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

 

1971
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

London Arts Gallery, London, England

 

1969
Mackler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Ray Packard Gallery, Akron, Ohio

London Arts Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio

 

1968
Kent State University, Kent State, Ohio

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

 

1966
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Feingarten Gallery, Los Angeles, California

 

1965
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

 

1964
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

 

1963
Edgecliff Academy of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

1948
Stanley Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2015
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina, Viewing of "Julian Stanczak Op Art: The Perceptive Eye"

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, "Bold Obstructions: Selections from the Collection, 1966–76"

David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Post–Op: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years Later"

Scott Richard Contemporary Art, San Fransisco, CA, "Optic Nerve"

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., LA / DC / NY, "1960's Hard Edge Painting"

 

2014
Frost Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, "Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction since 1950"
(&emdash; lend by the Museo de Arte, Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, "Our Postwar Focus 1960s-1970s"

 

2013
Harris–Stanton Gallery, Akron, Ohio, "26th Annual International Exhibition: Julian and Barbara Stanczak"

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, "Pan-American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States"

 

2012-2013
Mueso de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, "Exhibition of Major International Geometric Artists"

 

2012
New Museum, New York, New York, "Ghosts in the Machine"

 

2011
D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York "Structured Color", with Anuszkiewicz, Benjamin, Davis, Downing, Hinman, Stanczak, Tadasky

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York "Obstruction"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH "CLE OP: Cleveland Op Art Pioneers", with Julian Stanczak, Edwin Mieczkowski and Richard Anuszkiewicz

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, with Julian Stanczak, Edwin Mieczkowski and Robert Mangold

 

2010
Madron Gallery, Chicago, Illinois "The Perceptive Mind"

Deedee Wigmore, New York, New York "Op Art of Ohio; Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak in the 1960's"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio "In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize"

 

2009
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire "Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum"

 

2008
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, "Bars and Stripes"

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical Art Since 1945"

Beck Centerand the Cleveland Artists Foundation, Lakewood, Ohio — Julian & Barbara Stanczak Albright-Know Gallery, Buffalo, New York "Op Art Revisited"

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York "Pop and Op"

 

2006
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, "Op Art Revisited- Selections from the Albreight Knox Gallery"

Eckert Fine Arts, Naples, Florida, "Color & Light", Julian Stanczak & Steven Knapp

University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Intersecting Pathways: The Art of Julian & Barbara Stanczak"

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, "Optic Nerve- Perceptual Art from the 60’s"

Pratt Institute, New York, NY, "The Optical Edge"

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, "Director’s Choice", 3 artists

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "From Here To Infinity", 125th. Anniversary exhibition

 

2005
Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida, "Timeless: An Eclectic Collection Spanning Two Centuries"

McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Universal Medium"

McKenzie Fine Art, New York, New York, "Good Vibrations"

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Extreme Abstraction"

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, "Op Art: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Revisited"

 

2004-05
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, "Light and Movement"

 

2004
Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, "The Lead Chicken Award: Major Cleveland Painting at Mid-Century"

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, "The Abstract Eye: Selections from the Permanent Collection"

Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, "High Art: Perspectives"

 

2003
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”)], "Seeing Red: International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting"

P.S. 1 Gallery, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, "Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists (Curated by Agnes Gund)"

 

2002
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, "Wired: Art That Moves"

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, "Inner Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection"

 

2001
Cleveland Artists Foundation, The Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, "Harmonic Forms on the Edge: Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland"

Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan, "Color in the Eye"

 

2000
Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway Arkansas, "Color Function Serigraphs"

 

1999
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, "POP(ular)/OP(tical): Art of the 60’s and 70’s from the Permanent Collection"

 

1998
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Eyes Pop"

 

1997
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, "Expanding Tradition: the Influence of Polish Artists in the US"

Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio, "Responses to Nature – Responses to Art", Julian & Barbara Stanczak

 

1996
The Neil Rector Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz"

 

1995
Lakeland Community College, Ohio, "Action – Reaction: Julian and Barbara Stanczak" 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), "The Spirit of Cleveland: Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Fine Arts Prize 1961-1995"

 

1994
Akron Museum, Akron, Ohio, "Abstraction & Geometry in Painting"

 

1993
The Upstairs Gallery, Ithica, New York, "Julian Stanczak, Clayton Pond: Prints"

 

1991
Ministerstwo Kulturi I Sztuki, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, "Jestesmy"

 

1988
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, "Op & Pop"

 

1987
Madrid, Spain, "Art in the Embassies"

 

1985
National Museum of American Art, Washington, "The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection"

 

1984
Cincinnati, Ohio, "The Drackett Fine Art Collection"

 

1982
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, "Josef Albers: His Art and His Influence"

 

1981
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., "The Development of Optical Art"

 

1979
Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Artists from Yale"

The Cleveland Institute of Art, "Visual Logic: Davis, Mieczkowski, Pearson, Stanczak"

 

1977
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, "Modern Prints"

 

1975
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, "Forms of Color"

 

1973
Youngstown, Ohio, "American Contemporary Art"

Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio, "Stanczak – Anuszkiewicz"

 

1972
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, "Color Painting"

 

1971
Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio, "The Saalfield and Sundell Collections"

 

1970
Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Pittsburgh International"

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, "Contemporary American Art"

 

1969
Flint International, Flint Art Institute, Flint, Michigan, "The Square in Painting"

Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania (organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service), "Black White: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions"

 

1968
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Second Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today "

 

1967
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Pittsburgh International"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, "Contemporary Painting" Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Three Generations: Albers, Vasarely, Stanczak"

 

1966
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "Paintings in the White House"

Riverside Museum, New York, "Yesterday and Today 1936 – 1966, American Abstract Artists"

 

1965
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "The Responsive Eye"

San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco, California, "The Colorists"

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Kinetic and Optical Art Today" Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York, "Vibrations Eleven"

 

1964
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Motion and Movement"

 

Collections

 

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

 

Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania

 

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

 

Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

 

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

 

The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

 

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida

 

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

 

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

 

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio

 

Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

 

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

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

 

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

 

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

 

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

Cranbook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

 

Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

 

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan

 

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

 

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

 

Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

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

 

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles , California

 

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

 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts

 

Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

 

National Gallery of Art & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

 

Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida

 

Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase, New York

 

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

 

The RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

 

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

 

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

 

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

 

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

 

Winnepeg Art Gallery, Winnepeg, Manitoba Canada

 

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

 

Awards

 

2015
"Special Honoree" Cleveland Arts Prize, Cleveland, Ohio

 

2014
"Pulaski Award" Polonia Foundation of Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio
"Creative Arts Award" Polish American Historical Association, Washington D.C.

 

2013
"Doctor of Humane Letters" Case Western Reserve University.

 

2004
"Viktor Schreckengost Award" Cleveland Institute of Art.

 

2001
"Medal of Excellence" Cleveland Institute of Art.

 

1973-76
"Best of Show" nomination, International Platform Association, Washington, D.C.

 

1972
"Award for Excellence in Painting" Ohio Arts Council, Governor Gilligan presiding

 

1970
"Outstanding American Educator" Educators of America

 

1969
"Ohio Fine Arts Award" Women’s City Club, Cleveland, Ohio

 

1968
"Cleveland Fine Arts Prize for Visual Arts" Cleveland Foundation for the Arts

 

1966
"New Talent, U.S.A.", Art in America magazine, along with Donald Judd, Robert Morris, R. B. Kitaj, and others

 

1965
First "Prize and Purchase Award 30th Midyear Show", Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

 

1961
First Prize "Third Interior Valley Competition", Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati

First Prize and Purchase Award, "Artists of Southern Ohio", Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

 

 

 

SELECTED BOOKS

 

Monographs/Single Artist Publications

 

1971
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art, Praeger Publishers, N.Y.

 

1972
Baro, Gene. Serigraphs and Drawings of Julian Stanczak 1970-1972, Corcoran Gallery of Art

 

1990
Arnheim, Rudolf, Harry Rand, and Robert Bertholf. Julian Stanczak: Decades of Light, Poetry and Rare Book Collection, The University of Buffalo, N.Y.

 

1993
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

 

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

 

1999
Nill, Annegreth T. Julian Stanczak, Columbus Museum of Art

 

2003
Wilson-Powell, MaLin. Julian Stanczak: Op Art Painting, McNay Museum of Art

 

2004
Fyfe, Joe, Agnes Gund and Dave Hickey. Julian Stanczak: Master of Op Art, Stefan Stux Gallery

 

2005
Morgan, Robert C. Julian Stanczak, Construction and Color: Four Decades of Painting, Stefan Stux Gallery

 

2007
OPTIC NERVE: Art and Design of the 60's, published and distributed by Merrell Publishing, London, with text by Dave Hickey and Joe Houston.

 

2008
Hickey, Dave, Julian Stanczak., New York: Danese.

 

2008
Houston, Joe Ursula Korneitchouk and Frances Taft., Parallel Paths - Singular Quest: Barbara and Julian Stanczak, Cleveland: Cleveland Artists Foundation.

 

2010
Danese Julian Stanczak Color – Grid., New York: Danese Gallery.

 

 

 

 

 

Major Interview Transcript

 

2000
Rector, Neil K. Communicating in a Different Way: The Julian Stanczak Interviews, June 22-24, 2000

 

 

 

Other Books/Publications

 

1965
RJackson, Martha. Vibrations Eleven, Martha Jackson Gallery.

 

1966
Carraher, Ronald and Jacqueline Thurston. Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts, Reinhold Publishing Co.

 

1967
Rickey, George. Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, George Braziller, Inc.

 

1968
Schinneller, James. Art/Search & Self-Discovery, International Textbook Company

 

1970
Bates, Kenneth. Basic Design, New World Publishing

Mendelowitz, Daniel M. A History of American Art, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc.

 

1971
Barrett, Cyril, An Introduction to Optical Art, Dutton Press, England

 

1974
Richardson, T. and N. Stangos. Concepts of Modern Art, Penguin Books, Harper and Row

 

1975
Lipman, Jean. Provocative Parallels: Naïve Early Americans/International Sophisticates, Dutton

 

1976
Baro, Gene. Josef Albers: The Pursuit of Excellence, Yale University Press

 

1982
Kranz, Les. The New York Art Review, Macmillan Publishing Co.

 

1985
Rand, Harry. The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection, Smithsonian Institute Press

 

1995
Griffith, Dennison. The Spirit of Cleveland: Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Arts Prize 1961-1995, Cleveland Institute of Art

 

1996
Rector, Neil K., Floyd Ratliff, and Sanford Wurmfeld. Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, in conjunction with exhibition at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

 

2001
Brown, Ann Caywood and Elizabeth McClelland. Harmonic Forms on the Edge: Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland, Beck Center for the Arts

 

2003
Smirnoff, Lois. Dimensional Color, Second Edition, Birkhaueser. Boston, Basel

Publication regarding Hunter College (New York, NY) exhibition "Seeing Red: International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting."

 

2004
McGowan, Alison C. (ed.). Who’s Who in American Art 2003-04 (25th Edition)

Follin, Francis. Embodied Visions: Bridget Riley, Op Art and the Sixties, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London
Davenport, Ray. Davenport’s Art Reference (The Gold Edition)

Fehr, Michael and Sanford Wurmfeld (ed.). Seeing Red: On Nonobjective Painting and Color Theory, Salon Verlag, Cologne

Pagel, David. David Klamen: Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press

 

2005
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (ed.). The Artists Bluebook

Grachos, Louis and Claire Schneider, Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York

 

2006
Rosenthal, T.G., Josef Albers, Formulation: Articulation, Thames & Hudson Ltd., London

 

2010
Danese Gallery, Julian Stanczak: Color – Grid, Danese Gallery

 

2011
David Richard Contemporary, Julian Stanczak: Elusive Transparencies, David Richard Contemporary

Karabenick, Julie, "An Interview with Artist Julian Stanczak", Geoform

Safak Gunes Gokduman, "From Labour Camps to the Summit of OP ART: Julian Stanczak", RH+ Art Magazine

Olesiak, Henryk, "Pomnik", Jacek Olesiak — Kraków

Olesiak, Henryk, "Romantycznosc i kiszana kapusta", Swieradow Zdroj

 

2012
Houston, Joe, Museo de Arte Contemporameo Buenos Aires, "A Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950", Buenos Aires, Argentina

"Bloomberg names Julian Stanczak one of the 'Market's Hottest Artists'", Ben Steverman, Bloomberg Publications

 

2013
Akron Art Museum, "Line Color Illusion: 40 Years of Julian Stanczak", Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio

Trickey, Erick, "Color Wonder", Cleveland Magazine, Cleveland, Ohio

Maciuszko, Jerzy J.,"POLES APART. The Tragic Fate of Poles During World War 11", ThoughtWorks Ltd., US

Olesiak, Henryk, "Polska scena polityczna", Swieradow Zdroj

 

2014
Costello, Eileen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, "Julian Stanczak: From Life", Chelsea, New York, NY

Smolinska, Marta, "Julain Stanczak: Op Art and the Dynamics of Perception", Muza Sa, Warsaw, Poland

"Doktor honoris causa z Zielonki", Ryszard Glowacki, nasz Przemysl

 

2015
News International, "Must See Art: Julian Stanczak's From Life at Mitchell-Innes & Nash", Chelsea, New York, NY

Olesiak, Henryk, "Nasza tozsamosc i nasze emigracje", Swieradow Zdroj

"What You See Is What You Think You See", Jown O'Hern, American Fine Art Magazine

"Between Magic and Logic: The Perceptual Art of Edna Andrade", Joe Houston, Locks Publications

"Julian Stanczak — czysta forma i ,,burzliwe'' wspomnienia", Lila Dmochowska, format NR70

"Calder Foundation President Sandy Rower's 5 Favortire Works From Art Basel 2015", Alexander S.C. Rower, Artspace