Jack Zajac

Jack Zajac
Born December 13, 1929(1929-12-13)
Youngstown, Ohio
Nationality American
Field Sculpture, Painting
Training Scripps College, Claremont, California
Movement West Coast Romantic Surrealism[1]

Jack Zajac is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “Romantic Surrealist tradition”.[2]

”To have a message or an emotional stimulation soaked up by an uncertainty of the Artist’s tool — color — shape — form — which are the punctuation of his message, is a discouraging thing. This is the kind of anemia I’m trying to eliminate.”[3]

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Biography

Jack Zajac is an American artist who was born December 13, 1929 in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1946, his family moved to southern California. After he graduated from high school, he got a job at Kaiser Steel Mill. This experience helped finance his attendance at art school at Scripps College in Claremont, California from 1949 to 1953.

Honors

In 1948, he won a scholarship at a California State Fair student exhibition in Sacramento. He was named recipient of the Purchase Prize at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1950, which led to his first one man exhibit. He is known for his sculptures in bronze and marble, as well as his figurative paintings. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize. He is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. He has been an Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, Dartmouth College and the University of California, Santa Cruz.

American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design.

Selected solo exhibitions

Selected retrospectives

Selected group exhibitions

Works in museums and public collections

Cowell College at UC Santa Cruz, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) are among the public collections holding works by Jack Zajac.

References

  1. ^ Painting and sculpture in California, the modern era. p. 109
  2. ^ Painting and sculpture in California, the modern era. p. 109
  3. ^ American abstract and figurative expressionism : style is timely art is timeless : an illustrated survey with artists' statements, artwork and biographies p.244

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