Jack Zajac (born December 13, 1929) is a Californian West Coast artist who has been concerned with the “RomanticSurrealisttradition”.[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]
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 employment helped finance his study of art at Scripps College in Claremont, California, from 1949 to 1953. Though Zajac studied art with Millard Sheets at Scripps College, and was a member of the art community that developed in Claremont, California during the mid-20th century,[4] he was admitted as a special, non-degree seeking student.[5] The reason that he was not admitted as a regular student was because Scripps College was then, and remains today, a women's college. Jack Zajac is married to artist, Corda Eby. They have two children, Aaron Zajac and Christian Zajac and three grandchildren, Camille Zajac, Phoebe Zajac and Jack Zajac. His son, Christian Zajac and granddaughter, Camille Zajac are both artists.
^Painting and sculpture in California, the modern era. p. 109
^Painting and sculpture in California, the modern era. p. 109
^American abstract and figurative expressionism : style is timely art is timeless : an illustrated survey with artists' statements, artwork and biographies p.244
^Bockhorst, Paul (Director) (2014). Design for Modern Living: Millard Sheets and the Claremont Art Community, 1935-1975 (Videorecording). Monrovia, California: Bockhorst, Paul.
^MacNaughton, Mary. "Introduction to Art at Scripps: The Early Years, essay by Duplicate word removedMary MacNaughton". Introduction to Art at Scripps: The Early Years. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
Seldis, Henry J. & Ulfert Wilke, “The Sculpture of Jack Zajac”, Galland Press, Los Angeles, 1960
Marika Herskovic, American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism : Style is Timely Art is Timeless : an illustrated survey with artists' statements, artwork and biographies. (New York, N.J. : New York School Press, 2009.) ISBN 0-9677994-2-2 p. 244-247
External links
Jack Zajac in Artnet
Jack Zajac, 1929-
Photographs of Jack Zajac from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections