Julian Stanczak’s Third Exhibition at David Richard Gallery Explores Color Relationships Using Only Lines and A Reductive Palette
Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) March 03, 2014 -- David Richard Gallery will present paintings by Julian Stanczak that explore color relationships and visual perception using reductive color palettes and parallel lines. The gallery’s third exhibition for Stanczak, "Lineal Pathways", will be presented March 14 - April 19, 2014 with an opening reception on Friday, March 14, 5:00 - 7:00 PM and a private in-gallery dining event and reception on Saturday, March 15, 6:00 - 9:00 PM as a fundraiser to benefit http://www.ArtMattersSantaFe.org (call to purchase tickets) all at the gallery located on 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.
"Lineal Pathways" features paintings from Stanczak’s "Crest" series, which are very different from his "See Through" series and "Grid" paintings. The "Crest" series is less geometric, more organic, and continues explorations Stanczak began in the 1960s. These paintings are created with many fine parallel lines that run from one edge of the canvas to the other with points of constriction that cause either subtle or immediate directional shifts. The effect is a topographical illusion, a ghostly blanketing of underlying objects and hills. The parallel lines with their subtle undulations and shifts create equally potent color effects. Many of the paintings alter spatial relationships and depth perception as seen through color. The reduced palette in these paintings is powerful because the adjacency of the lines and alternating colors creates an almost third color and/or monochrome effect in many of the artworks.
Stanczak, a student of Josef Albers, exploits his knowledge of colors not operating independently, but instead, interacting in concert with and perceived in relationship to neighboring colors. His focusing on color and using it to create the illusion of other colors makes the "experience" of color more important than the actual lines or geometric shapes used to contain it.
Julian Stanczak’s impressive career includes over 90 solo exhibitions in New York, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati, Houston, Los Angeles, London, England, Tokyo, Japan, Warsaw, Poland and Ontario, Canada, among other cities. His artwork has been featured in numerous national and international group shows such as the seminal exhibitions in 1965 that established the perceptual art movement, "Vibrations Eleven", at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York and "The Responsive Eye", at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Stanczak’s artwork is included in the permanent collections of approximately 80 museums, among them, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Modern Art (New York), National Gallery of Art and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.) and Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England). His artwork is also featured in many important public and private collections. Julian Stanczak was born in Borownica, Poland and now lives and works in Seven Hills, Ohio.
David Richard Gallery specializes in post-war abstract art including Abstract Expressionism, Color Field, geometric and hard-edge painting, Op Art, Pop Art, Minimalism, Feminism and Conceptualism in a variety of media. Featuring both historic and contemporary artwork, the gallery represents many established artists who were part of important art historical movements and tendencies that occurred during the 1950s through the 1980s on both the east and west coasts. The gallery also represents artist estates, emerging artists and offers secondary market works.
David Eichholtz, David Richard Gallery, LLC, http://www.davidrichardgallery.com, (505) 983-9555, [email protected]
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