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Swingline (1988)
typifies Abstract Illusionism and Jack Lembeck's oeuvre. In this
abstract painting, colorful lines, spots, dribbles, and splashes
of paint are reflected in echoes and shadows of gray and blue that
dance upon a flat, monochromatic field to create the illusion of
three dimensional space. A relatively brief phase of Abstract
Expressionism, Abstract Illusionism developed from experiments
with line and color to express emotion and movement and from Op
(Optical) Art, the study of color combinations that suggest three
dimensions on two dimensional surfaces.
One of the most celebrated of the Abstract Illusionists in the
1970s and 1980s, Lembeck received a B.F.A. from Kansas University
and an M.F.A. from Yale in 1970, where he remained as an
instructor in Yale's art department until 1972. Lembeck then
established a career in Soho as a professional artist, exhibiting
his paintings nationally and internationally. His works are
included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum,
The Phoenix Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the
Orlando Museum of Art, among others.
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