Dimensions: 71.5 x 71.5 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'Stanczak '74'
on the reverse exhibition stickers Martha Jackson Gallery and Mitchell-Innes and Nash with descriptions of the work
Origin
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Julian Stanczak," solo exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1975.
Literature
Marta Smolinska, Julian Stanczak. Op-art and the dynamics of perception, Warsaw 2014, p. 224 (ill.)
Biography
Polish painter residing in the United States, one of the pioneers of op-art. In 1940 he and his entire family were arrested by the Soviets and deported to Siberia. As a result of hard labor and illness, he lost power in his right hand. He fled the Soviet Union with his family to Africa, where he lived in a camp for refugees from Poland. He spent his youth in Uganda where he took his first lessons in drawing with his left hand. He had his first exhibition of his work in Nairobi (Kenya). In 1949 he emigrated with his family to the UK, where he began studying at London Polytechnic and in 1950 moved to the US. There he began his studies at the Cleveland Art Institute, graduating in 1954, and then studied at Yale, where he earned a Master of Art Sciences degree. In 1964 he became a professor of painting at the Cleveland Art Institute in Cleveland, Ohio.