NEW YORK, NY.- It is with great sadness that Mitchell-Innes & Nash announces the death of Julian Stanczak.

Julian Stanczak died on Saturday, March 25 at age 88 in Seven Hills, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, his hometown since the early 1960s. He first came to wide public recognition when he was included in the enormously popular exhibition "The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art," New York, 1965, which greatly contributed to the public awareness of the Op Art movement. The phrase “Op Art” itself was first used in print in 1964 by artist/critic Donald Judd in his review of Stanczak’s exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery, in 1964, titled “Julian Stanczak: Optical Paintings.” While Stanczak is often associated with Op Art, Judd recognized that Stanczak’s paintings have a “painterly expressiveness” and, thus, grew out of personal experience as opposed to Op Art’s basis in perceptual science and mathematical stratagems.

From May 18 to June 24, 2017, Mitchell-Innes & Nash will present a long-planned exhibition of Stanczak's work—the artist's second with the gallery, to be titled “Julian Stanczak: The Life of the Surface, Paintings 1970-1975.”

His work is included in the collections of more than 80 museums, including Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington, DC; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Julian Stanczak is survived by his wife, the artist Barbara Meerpohl, a daughter Danusia M. Casteel, and a son Krzys M. Stanczak.