"Op Out of Ohio: The Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Julian Stanczak in the 1960s" Exhibition
D. Wigmore Fine Art
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"Op Out of Ohio: Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Julian Stanczak in the 1960s," features over 30 paintings from 1959 to 1970 by Richard Anuszkiewicz (b.1930), Julian Stanczak (b.1928), and the three artists of the Anonima Group: Ernst Benkert (b. 1928), Francis Hewitt (1936-1992), and Ed Mieczkowski (b. 1929). A highlight will be four paintings from the Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking 1965 exhibition, "The Responsive Eye," curated by William Seitz, which placed optical, kinetic, and concrete art into one perception based movement which the press dubbed "Op Art."
Each of the artists in the exhibition studied or taught at Ohio institutions. Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak met as undergraduates at the Cleve land Institute ofArt in the early 1950s before both studied at Yale University with Josef Albers from 1954-1956. Stanczak returned to the Cleveland Institute in 1964 to teach painting, which he did until 1995. Francis Hewitt and Ernst Benkert met as graduate students at Oberlin College in 1959. After meeting as students at Carnegie Tech in the mid-1950s, Hewitt and Ed Mieczkowski both taught at the Cleveland Institute in the early 1960s. Mieczkowski continued to teach there until 1990.
[Image: Ernst Benkert "Untitled (Black and White Ellipses)" (1960) ink on paper 16 x 16 in.]
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Schedule
from April 15, 2010 to July 09, 2010