Parallel Paths, Singular Quest:
Barbara and Julian Stanczak

Apr 4–July 26, 2008

Opening reception
Fri, Apr 4, 6–8 pm

Gallery talk with the artists
Sat, Apr 26, 3–5 pm

For 45 years, Barbara and Julian Stanczak have shared a life in art. Although each has forged a decisively different path—she a sculptor and he a painter—both have been guided by the same quest that brought them together in the studios of the Art Academy of Cincinnati one day in 1960. That meeting was fortuitous but hardly accidental, an event that was likely to occur given the chance. Both émigrés in postwar America at a time of artistic ferment, each was motivated by a similar curiosity and desire to translate their experience of the world in some essential and timeless form.

Both trained generations of artists at the Cleveland Institute of Art—Barbara in the foundations of design, and Julian in the specifics of light and color—while concurrently building prolific careers in their respective media.

In their maturity, Barbara and Julian’s creative output shows no signs of abating. Quite the contrary, they continue to push the boundaries of their own aesthetic comfort zones. This landmark exhibition explores the relationship, the give and take, and the intersections of two parallel paths of creativity.

Cleveland Artists Foundation at the Beck Center for the Arts
17801 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44107-3413
Phone: 216.227.9507
Fax: 216 228 6050