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ARTISTS
ROBERT ZAKANITCH
CAROL MICKETT & ROBERT STACKHOUSE
LOUISA CHASE
AUDREY FLACK
SAM GILLIAM
STEPHEN GREENE
WILLY HEEKS
ROBERTO JUAREZ
TOM LIEBER
JAMES McGARRELL
VITALY KOMAR & ALEXANDER MELAMID
SAM MESSER
ED PASCHKE
PEDRO PEREZ
LARRY POONS
KATHERINE PORTER
MIRIAM SCHAPIRO
JOYCE J SCOTT
HOLLIS SIGLER
JOHN WALKER
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SAM GILLIAM
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 Robert Zakanitch was born 1935 in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Zakanitch began exhibiting in the late 1960s with Color Field paintings, but he first achieved real note as one of the founders of the Pattern & Decoration movement in the mid-'70s. When Zakanitch took up decorative imagery, he had been working as a Color Field abstractionist faithful to the Minimalist grid as the structural system of his painting. Once into decoration, he retained both his color sophistication and his respect for structure but translated the latter into a free, often organic floral motif rendered in painterly fashion.
Zakanitch created a series of monoprints 1991 and 2002 as visiting artist for the University of Tampa STUDIO-f program. He creates contrasting work of lush, exotic, botanicals of seemingly boundless imagery and continues to paint lush flowers, birds, animals and various decorations in his expressive manner. He views his work as positive: "I don't want any dehumanization in my work. I am more interested in planting the seeds of healing and civility."
In 1975, Robert Zakanitch met Miriam Schapiro during a term of guest teaching at the University of California in San Diego, and early the following year in New York the two painters jointly organized the Pattern and Decoration Artists. The group held their first meeting in a SoHo loft space, thereupon revealing not only to the art world at large but even to the participating artists that more painting was being done than Conceptualism had allowed anyone to believe. Having grown up in Rahway, New Jersey, he has been an exhibitor in New York since 1968. His styles have ranged from Abstract Expressionism, to Minimalism to Pop Art.
Zakanitch works are in major collections throughout the world including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum, Wash. D. C., Musée de Strasbourg, France, and the Rothchild Bank, Zurich, Switzerland. The Big Bungalow Suite, five rich, exquisite, paintings (11x30 ft) completed in '95 have been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. Robert Zakanitch lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City.
STUDIO-f at the University of Tampa is an innovative visiting artist program that has included such notables as Louisa Chase, Komar and Melamid, Katherine Porter, Larry Poons, Ed Paschke and Robert Rahway Zakanitch. The purpose of this program is to introduce national and international artists to the Tampa Bay community by giving students and art enthusiasts an opportunity to meet these artists and to see them working in the studio.
Easily accessible, STUDIO-f is located on the University of Tampa campus. World Class artists work in collaboration with a Master Printer for a period of two weeks to create a series of monoprints. Unlike the limited edition print, a monoprint is an individual, original work of art created in a series. Each print is one of a kind, unique. At least one print from each series is retained for the Fine Art Permanent Collection of the University of Tampa. A number of the remaining monoprints are made available to art collectors. STUDIO-f monoprints in the University of Tampa permanent collection are available for exhibition on request.
A lecture in the Scarfone/Hartley Gallery by each artist gives added insight to the process of art.
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