Opening Night Reception: Friday, Nov 4, 2011
6-8pm
Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard
University Circle
Free and open to the public
Two gallery shows feature three transcendent painters whose vision influenced a generation:
+Continuity and Discontinuity: Robert Mangold
+Boundary Formations and the Tease of the Familiar:
Ed Mieczkowski and Julian Stanczak
Robert Mangold: The focus of this exhibition is primarily on continuity and discontinuity, a fusing of the logical and arbitrary in four striking large-scale canvases measuring from eight to twenty feet in length, and six Column Structure drawings from 2006. Mangold transcends the obvious; light courses through the paint like a splendid Turner watercolor.
Robert Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, NY in 1927. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1956-59 before attending Yale University, School of Art and Architecture where he completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees. His work is in the collections of Solomon R. Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, and many other international public collections.
Julian Stanczak and Ed Miechzkowski: The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1965 was the seminal exhibition of Optical Art and included works by Julian Stanczak and Ed Miechzkowski among a list of Who's Who of geometric and perceptual abstraction. Stanczak's intricate language of music and poetry of colors exist like a metronome with a fixed aural pulse where the boundary of formations and the tease of the familiar define his visual quest. Mieczkowski follows a rigorous, self-imposed program of painting exercises to explore the effects of color on visual perception. After four decades, his jeweled compositions, like a refreshing optical effect of perceptual motion, are dazzling kaleidoscopic and seductively challenging.
Julian Stanczak is a 1954 CIA graduate and 30-year-plus CIA faculty member. His work resides in museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Ed Mieczkowski is a 1957 CIA graduate and served as a faculty member for nearly 40 years. His work is in the collections of international museums, including the Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and museums in Poland and Denmark.