ON VIEW in the William D. Ginn Gallery

Curated by Indra K. Lacis, Emily Hall Tremaine Curatorial Fellow

Julian Stanczak's work helped to define the Op, or "perceptual," art movement of the 1960's.  Since that time, Stanczak has continued to make groundbreaking work primarily here in Cleveland, where he was a professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1964 - 1995.  Visually stunning and metaphorically rich, Stanczaks newest works will be featured this fall in MOCA's 12th PULSE exhibition, a series presenting outstanding artists working in our region.

Stanczak's 2008 painting, Parade of Reds, is the largest and most complex work in this exhibition.  Comprised of fifty 16 X 16 inch panels, Parade of Reds can be perceived as either a collective sum of its individual parts or, conversely, as one indivisible whole.  In this abstract work, Stanczak layers - with painstaking precision - reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, magentas, and deep purple hues that coalesce into vibrating geometric forms.  Stanczak, whose work is in the permanent collection of more than sixty museums in America and abroad, asserts that his paintings remain "open to interpretation," since as an artist, his creative process centers not on the question of "'what is it,' but rather on 'what does it do to you?'"