Jules Olitski

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Jevel Demikovski (March 27, 1922 – February 4, 2007), also known as Jules Olitski, was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor.

Early life

Olitski was born Jevel Demikovsky in Snovsk, in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (now Ukraine), a few months after his father, a commissar, was executed by the Soviet government. He and his mother and grandmother immigrated to the United States in 1923 and settled in Brooklyn. While his mother worked to help the family, his grandfather cared for him. In 1926, his mother married Hyman Olitsky (note "y" ending), a widower with two sons. In 1930, a daughter was born.

Education

Olitski had a knack for drawing and was taking occasional art classes in Manhattan by 1935. He attended public schools in New York, winning an art prize upon his graduation from high school. Rembrandt's portraits struck him at an exhibit exhibiting the work of some of the great masters at the New York World's Fair in 1939. He received a scholarship to study art at Pratt Institute and was accepted into the National Academy of Design in New York later this year. From 1940 to 42, his education at Beaux Arts Institute in New York continued.

Olitski married and worked with Leo and Alma Gershenson in Asheville, NC, after being released from the Army in 1945. He travelled to Mexico after Leo's suggestion for a long time. He later returned to New York, and then went to Paris in the late 40s. Bill's major attracted attention at the Ossip Zadkine School and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. He saw the European modern masters and engaged in a serious self-analysis, which required painting while blindfolded to ban himself from all of his customary habits and establishment in Paris. Olitski's first one-man exhibition in Paris in 1951.

Olitski obtained his B.A. after returning to New York in 1951. He received his M.A. in 1952 and his M.A. Both from New York University in 1954 graduated in Art Education, with both being from New York University.

Personal life

Olitski, 84, lived and worked in studios in New Hampshire and Florida, and he exhibited regularly until his death from cancer in 2007.

Family

1945. Gladys Katz, Marries. Eve is Eve, Eve's one daughter. Div. The date is 1955.

1956. Andrea Hill Pearce, a marries Andrea Hill Pearce. Lauren is Lauren's one daughter. Div. 1974: circa 1974.

1980s. Joan C. Gorby (aka Kristina) is a British singer from Ireland.

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Career

In 1951, Olitski had his first one-person show at Galerie Huit, Paris. He returned to New York to paint monochromatic photographs with empty centers after reacting to the Paris paintings' hue and images. He remarried and began attending group shows, and by 1956, he had rejoined the faculty of C. W. Post College on Long Island. In 1958, he had his first New York one-person show at the Alexander Iolas Gallery's Zodiac Room, where he met Clement Greenberg, who exhibited Olitski's paintings in a large solo exhibition at French & Company.

Olitski strayed from the heavily encrusted abstract canvas he had created in 1960 and began to stain the canvas with large areas of thin, brilliant dyes. These were shown at his second French & Co. exhibition in April 1961, and he was invited to join the Poindexter Gallery, where he had several exhibitions. He appeared in numerous venues, gained a trophy at the Carnegie International Exhibition, and museums began to be acquired by museums.

Olitski had invented a radically different way of laying down atmospheric blankets of colored spray on the canvas, first by barely discernible value shifts near the edge of the photograph and then by acrylic paint dragged along portions of the edge. He appeared internationally in the 1960s and was chosen as one of four artists to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1966. He was invited to exhibit large, aluminum, spray-painted sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, becoming the first living American artist to be given a one-person exhibition there.

From 1963 to 1967, Bennington College was a teacher.

Olitski's 1970s work was back to the hard impasto surfaces that defined his 50s art, but with new innovations that exploited the newly developed polymer and gel acrylic mediums. He was elected into the National Academy of Design in 1994.

His late works from 2001 to 2007 are characterized by vivid orbs that can evoke landscape or skyscape. Norman L. Kleeblat explains in his essay in the catalogue accompanying the exhibition Jules Olitski-The Late Paintings-A Celebration, which was on display at Knoedler and Company from Nov 2007 to January 2008. "When each colored area is seen separately, Olitski's colors can appear jarring." However, the artist is a master of unexpected clashes of vibrant and metallic-looking colors recalling Delacroix. "This is the product of my mother's heart."

Olitski had over 150 one-person exhibitions in his lifetime and is represented in museums around the world. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Hartford, Keene State College, and Southern New Hampshire University. YaresArt represents Jules Olitski's estate.

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