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Stanczak’s Succession, 1980–2013, emanates light.

Barbara Stanczak explains how Julian Stanczak carefully balanced 30 different colors to create the painting’s luminous effect and writes about why this work remains one of her favorites. In the essay, she details two enduring goals of Stanczak’s artistic practice: achieving “color melt-down” and “metamorphosis.” Read more here.

Julian Stanczak, Succession,1980–2013, 38 x 38 inches.

“This painting just oozes the sensation of light and life. It does not depict or illustrate any specific light source or life—reminiscent forms, yet it is as if the sun itself were bouncing over the repeated squares.”
—Barbara Stanczak on Succession, 1980–2013

Stanczak on View

Now on View in Bridgeport, Connecticut
Masters of Op Art continues at the Housatonic Museum of Art. Lone Chroma, 1978 is one of three Stanczak works featured in the exhibition. Read more here.

Now on View in Midland, Michigan
The Midland Center for the Arts is exhibiting Stanczak’s 1971 print Veiled as part of A Selection from Midland Center’s Permanent Collection, on view until February 25, 2024.

Opening Soon in Lancaster, Ohio
The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio will exhibit Stanczak’s 1969 painting Rectangular Twist along with several 1960s Stanczak exhibition posters during MOD: VISUAL< SOCIAL< CULTURAL - Renaissance of the 1960s. The show will run June 1–August 25, 2024. Read more here.

Coming in 2025 to Potsdam
The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany will place five Stanczak works (including Late Glow, 1977) on view as part of Kandinsky’s Universe: Geometric Abstraction from Constructivism to Op Art. This major exhibition, slated to run from February 15 to May 18, 2025 will explore the development of geometric abstractions in Western art. More information will be shared closer to the exhibition.

Stanczak on Screen

Austin Polish Film Festival screens To Catch the Light
The festival in Austin, Texas presented Julian Stanczak: To Catch the Light on November 3, 2023 at the AFS Cinema. The Stanczak documentary was one of only three documentaries selected for screening. Find the full film listing here.

Stanczak in the Press

The Austin Polish Film Festival published “Color is a Vitamin,” an interview with filmmaker Tomasz Magierski
Magierski and Joanna Sokołowska-Gwizdka discuss Stanczak’s story, the eight-year creation of To Catch the Light, and the filmmaker’s relationship to the artist. Read more here.

Palm Springs Life profiled a Marrakesh Country Club home designed by Patrick Dragonette
Four exuberant Stanczak works are prominently featured in the dwelling’s colorful dining room. Click here to read the article and see the works photographed in-situ.

Phong H. Bui interviews Tony Bechara on painting and color for The Brooklyn Rail
Their wide-ranging conversation delves into a discussion of Op Art, and names Stanczak alongside Op Art contemporaries including Victor Vasarely, Carlos Cruz-Diez, and Jesús Rafael Soto. Read more here.

Catch up on the Color Quarterly

Color Quarterly: Autumn 2023
Color Quarterly: Summer 2023
Color Quarterly: Spring 2023
Color Quarterly: Winter 2023
Color Quarterly: Fall 2022
Special Issue: The Premier of To Catch the Light
Color Quarterly: Summer 2022
Color Quarterly: Spring 2022
The Inaugural Color Quarterly: Winter 2022

See Barbara Stanczak: Spirit and Matter

Attend Sip in the Studio: Alabaster Carving with Barbara Stanczak
Thursday, January 25, 2024
6:00 – 7:30 pm

As part of the programming for her Akron Museum of Art solo exhibition Spirit and Matter, artist Barbara Stanczak will lead participants in carving alabaster, a type of soft stone. Learn more about the workshop and register via the Akron Museum of Art website.

Spirit and Matter is on view through February 4, 2024. Works are installed in the same gallery as the 2013 exhibition Line Color Illusion: 40 Years of Julian Stanczak. Pictured below: In Rhythm, 2018 and an installation shot from the exhibition. Read more here.

An image from below looking up at a large, bright mural on the side of a brick building.

Latest Exhibitions

"Harmonic Duality: Sculpture by Barbara Stanczak and Paintings by Julian Stanczak", June 23 – July 28, 2018 at The Bonfoey Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Transcendence: Silkscreens by Julian Stanczak and Stone Carvings by Barbara Stanczak" from June 28 – September 22, 2018 at Harris Stanton Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio.