Click below to watch Julian Stanczak: Great Colorist of the 20th Century, a new video on the life and work of painter Julian Stanczak. In the film, curator Joe Houston notes that "[Stanczak] can do a lot with the canvas in terms of space and light emanating from the piece… [he] has in common with Albers... the ability to summon light and space from color."
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Stanczak notes: "my primary interest is color - the energy of the different wavelengths of light and their juxtapositions. The primary drive of colors is to give birth to light. But light always changes; it is evasive. I use the energy of this flux because it offers me great plasticity of action on the canvas... Color is abstract, universal - yet personal and private in experience. It primarily affects us emotionally, not logically as do tangible things."