in America magazine. In the early 1960s he began to make the surface plane of the painting vibrate through his use of wavy lines and contrasting colors in works such as Provocative Current (1965). These paintings gave way to more complex compositions constructed with geometric rigidity yet softened with varying degrees of color transparency such as Netted Green (1972). In addition to being an artist, Stanczak was also a teacher, having worked at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1957–64 and as Professor of Painting, at the Cleveland Institute of Art, 1964-1995. He was named "Outstanding American Educator" by the Educators of America in 1970. Style Stanczak deployed repeating forms to create compositions that are manifestations of his visual experiences. Stanczak's work is an art of experience, and is based upon structures of color. In the 1980s and 1990s Stanczak retained his geometric structure and created compositions with bright or muted colors, often creating pieces in a series such as Soft Continuum (1981; Johnson and Johnson Co. CT, see McClelland pl. 50). More recently, Stanczak created large-scale series, consisting of square panels upon which he examined variations of hue and chroma in illusionistic color modulations, an example of which is Windows to the Past (2000; 50 panels). Public Collections Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania American University Museum, Washington, DC Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, New York Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Burchfield Penney Art Center, SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, New York Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Cranbrook Art