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sometimes misspelled Marco Spalatin, Spaltin, Splatin, Spalitan, Spalitin, Spatalin |
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1945 Born in Zagreb, Croatia 1963 Immigrated to United States 1968 B.S. in Art, University of Wisconsin Madison 1971 M.F.A., University of Wisconsin Madison STATEMENT "My work represents a continuous involvement with abstract geometric forms defined by careful manipulation of color and light. The relationship between form and color within the pictorial field demands a visually symbiotic presence. The challenge revolves around the selection of a form as a vehicle for color, as well as choosing appropriate color and light for that form. This interplay creates a primary spatial illusion, along with secondary effects. I find that precisely defined areas of color, when placed against each other, compete for dominance. This activity, when further accentuated by tonal structure, produces multiple levels of perception. A given area of uniformly applied pigment loses its flat character through simultaneous contrast with the surrounding colors. In many cases, the positive and negative spaces within the field become interchangeable. In more complex paintings, when the substructure is a series of repetitive modules, the color-light interplay reveals its polyphonic character. In general, my compositions remain formal and symmetrical in order to be set in motion by unexpected mutations of color and light. In some cases, the careful placement of small areas of saturated color against a backdrop of transitional grays creates an illusion of suspended particles. There is no doubt that in these images in particular, my sense of color and light is subconsciously influenced and sustained by many years of scuba diving in the waters of the Adriatic Sea and the Caribbean. I am intrigued by the relativity of color and by the mystery of light, and I am constantly challenged to explore their potentials. Every painting becomes a self-imposed visual problem, subjectively resolved in search of an objective truth." PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Musιe d'Art Moderne Paris, France Museum of Modern Art New York, New York Tate Gallery London, England Bibliothθque National Paris, France Victoria & Albert Museum London, England Library of Congress Washington, D.C. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois Metropolitan Museum Manila, Philippines Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio Museum of Modern Art Belgrade, Yugoslavia Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison, Wisconsin Akron Art Institute Akron, Ohio Museum of Modern Art Novi Sad, Yugoslavia Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin New York Public Library New York, New York Oklahoma Art Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Masur Museum of Art Monroe, Louisiana National Arts Club New York, New York Albrecht Museum St. Joseph, Missouri Billings Art Center Billings, Montana National & University Library Zagreb, Croatia Rochester Museum of Art Rochester, New York Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS 1970 Akron Art Institute Akron, Ohio 1970 Fairweather Hardin Gallery Chicago, Illinois 1970 Jane Haslem Gallery Madison, Wisconsin 1971 Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin 1971 Suzanne Kohn Gallery St. Paul, Minnesota 1971 University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 1971 Galerie Lahumiθre Paris, France 1972 Fairweather Hardin Gallery Chicago, Illinois 1972 Landry-Bonino Gallery New York, New York 1972 S.C. Gallery Zagreb, Croatia 1972 Gallery IlI Montreal, Quιbec 1972 Daedalus I Detroit, Michigan 1973 Mathis Gallery Racine, Wisconsin 1973 Galerie Lahumiθre Paris, France 1973 Galerie Regards Paris, France 1973 University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 1974 Galeria Bonino New York, New York 1974 Habatat Gallery Dearborn, Michigan 1975 Albrecht Museum St. Joseph, Missouri 1975 Osprey Gallery Rochester, New York 1975 Gallery "6" Wichita, Kansas 1975 National Arts Club New York, New York 1975 Devorzan Gallery Los Angeles, California 1975 Fairweather Hardin Gallery Chicago, Illinois 1975 Studio One Beirut, Lebanon 1976 Heritage Gallery Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1976 Janus Gallery Washington, D.C. 1976 Thomas Word Gallery Edina, Minnesota 1976 The Gallery Tampa, Florida 1976 Creative Gallery Seattle, Washington 1976 G. McCleaf Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1976 Editions Houston, Texas 1977 Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin 1977 Fanny Garver Gallery Madison, Wisconsin 1978 Source Gallery San Francisco, California 1978 Dee Erlien Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1980 Gilman Galleries Chicago, lllinois 1981 Posner Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1981 Seuferer Chosy Gallery Madison, Wisconsin 1983 Gallery 200 Columbus, Ohio 1984 Galeria La Feluca Rome, Italy 1984 Posner Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1984 Galeria Labirint Ljubljana, Slovenia 1985 Swearingen Gallery Louisville, Kentucky 1985 Gallery 200 Columbus, Ohio 1985 Horace Williams House Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1985 Jane Haslem Gallery Washington, D.C. 1986 Rodin Gallery St. Louis, Missouri 1987 Reece Gallery New York, New York 1987 Grace Chosy Gallery Madison, Wisconsin 1988 Posner Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1988 Horace Williams House Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1989 National & University Library Zagreb, Croatia 1989 Denis Conley Gallery Akron, Ohio 1990 Syd Entel Gallery Tampa, Florida 1990 Cumberland Gallery Nashville, Tennessee 1991 Mangel Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1992 Denis Conley Gallery Akron, Ohlo 1994 Editions Limited Gallery lndianapolis, Indiana 1995 The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio 1997 DeLind Fine Art Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1999 Uzelac Gallery Pontiac, Michigan 1999 DeLind Fine Art Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2000 Denis Conley Gallery Akron, Ohio 2000 Metropolitan Art Dodgeville, Wisconsin 2001 Atelier Gallery Madison, New Jersey 2002 DeLind Fine Art Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2003 Croatian Academy of Art Zagreb, Croatia 2004 Denis Conley Gallery Akron, Ohio 2004 Fairfield Art Museum Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 2004 Reece Galleries New York, New York SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1967 "9th Annual National Exhibition of Prints and Drawings" Oklahoma Art Center Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (also 1968)
1968 "American Graphic Workshops Exhibition" Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, Ohio
1968 "34th Wisconsin Salon of Art" University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin (also 1969, 1971)
1969 "The Local Scene" Deson-Zaks Gallery Chicago, Illinois
1969 Jane Haslem Gallery Washington, D.C.
1969 "American Prints World War lI to the Present" The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York
1969 Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin
1969 Lincoln Memorial Art Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1969 "Northwest Printmakers 40th International Exhibition" Seattle Art Museum Seattle, Washington (also 1970)
1970 World's Fair Osaka, Japan
1970 "Seven Wisconsin Printmakers" Suzanne Kohn Gallery Minneapolis, Minnesota
1970 "American Prints Today" Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica, New York
1970 "17th National Print Exhibition" The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, New York
1970 "New Talent in Printmaking" Associated American Artists Gallery New York, New York
1970 Phoenix Gallery Berkeley, California
1970 "National Print and Drawing Exhibition" Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois
1970 "8th National Print Show" Silvermine Guild of Artists New Canaan, Connecticut
1970 "6th National Print and Drawing Competition" Dulin Gallery of Art Knoxville, Tennessee (also 1971)
1970 "2nd Annual National Print Exhibition" San Diego State College San Diego, California (also 1971)
1971 Habatat Gallery Dearborn, Michigan
1971 Galeria Bonino New York, New York (also 1973)
1971 "22nd National Exhibition of Prints" Library of Congress Washington, D.C.
1971 "1st Hawaii National Print Exhibition" Honolulu Academy of Arts Honolulu, Hawaii
1971 "1st Annual National Print Exhibition" Georgia State University Gallery Atlanta, Georgia (also 1972)
1972 "Yugoslav Graphics 1965-72" Museum of Modern Art Belgrade, Yugoslavia
1972 Fanny Garver Gallery Madison, Wisconsin
1972 "7th Annual Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphic Art" Zagreb,Croatia (also 1976, 1982, 1986, 1988)
1972 "3rd International Print Biennale" Paris, France
1972 "3rd British International Print Biennale" Bradford City Art Gallery Bradford, England (also 1974)
1972 Galerie Paris, France (also 1973)
1973 "Printmakers Midwest Invitational" Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
1974 Galeria Bonino Caracas, Venezuela
1974 "1st International Biennale" Segovia, Spain (also 1976)
1975 Milwaukee Art Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1975 "Exhibition and Symposium of Prints and Printmakers" University of South Dakota Fine Arts Center Vermilion, South Dakota
1976 Fanny Garver Gallery Madison, Wisconsin
1976 Galerie Cimaise Bourg en Bresse, France
1977 "12th International Graphic Biennale" Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, Slovenia (also 1979, 1983)
1978 "Wisconsin Biennale" Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin (also 1980)
1978 "A Larger View" Boulder Art Center Boulder, Colorado
1978 "Three Abstract Painters" Mary Bell Gallery Chicago, Illinois
1980 Mary Bell Gallery Chicago, Illinois (also 1981)
1981 Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1982 Contemporary Limited Editions Safety Harbor, Florida
1982 Gallery 200 Columbus, Ohio (also 1986, 1992)
1984 Olympic Museum Sarajevo, Bosnia
1985 Jane Haslem Gallery Washington, D.C.
1987 "Wisconsin Directions" Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, Wisconsin (also 1989)
1989 "World Biennale of Croatian Art" Toronto, Canada
1989 Malton Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio
1990 "20th Anniversary Exhibition" Gallery 200 Columbus, Ohio
1991 Basel International Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
1992 Cumberland Gallery Nashville, Tennessee
1992 Meissner Gallery Hamburg, Germany
1994 DeLind Fine Art Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 "The Print Club of Cleveland: 1969-94" Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio
1994 "58th National Midyear Exhibition" The Butler Institute of American Art Youngstown, Ohio
1998 "150 Years of Wisconsin Printmaking" Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison, Wisconsin
1998 "Joe Wilfer: Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection" Madison Art Center Madison, Wisconsin
1999 "20th Anniversary Show" Cumberland Gallery Nashville, Tennessee
2000 "Small Packages" Cumberland Gallery Nashville, Tennessee
2000 "20th Anniversary Show" Ben Mangel Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001 "Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance" Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
2002 "Small Packages" Cumberland Gallery Nashville, Tennessee
2003 Corbino Gallery Sarasota, Florida
2004 Reece Galleries New York, New York
2004 Habatat Gallery Boca Raton, Florida
2004 Longstreth Goldberg Art Gallery Naples, Florida
2004 Milward Farrell Fine Art Madison, Wisconsin
2004 Editions Limited Gallery Indianapolis, Indiana
2004 DeLind Fine Art Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Terry Kirkman, "Master Serigrapher ln Montreal," Montreal Star, Montreal, Quιbec, March 16, 1972
Luce Vermette, "Marko Spalatin," Vie des Arts, Summer 1972
Bogdan Tirnanić, "New Vision in Graphic Art," Politika, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, August 6, 1972
Donna M. Stein, "Interview with Marko Spalatin" (exhibition catalog essay), Landry-Bonino Gallery, New York, New York, August 23, 1972
Josip kunca, "Variations on Constructive Ideas," Vjesnik, Zagreb, Croatia, October 5, 1972
John Canaday, "Marko Spalatin," New York Times, October 7, 1972
Douglas Crimp, "Marko Spalatin," Art News, November 1972
James Auer, "Spalatin: Alchemist ln Acrylics," Milwaukee Journal, July 6, 1973
Philip Larson, "Printmakers: Midwest Invitational" (exhibition catalog introduction), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 9, 1973
John Newhouse, "Marko Spalatin," Wisconsin State Journal, September 22, 1973
Rosemary Teres, "Spalatin Re‑creates the 'Ideal Form'," Times‑Union, Rochester, New York, June 7, 1975
William Zimmer, "Marko Spalatin," Arts Magazine, April 1976
Gertrude Struck, "Marko Spalatin," Madison Select, January 1977
Dave Wagner, "Spalatin Exhibit Dramatic Show of Artist's Progress," Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, January 14, 1977
Thomas Albright, "Marko Spalatin," San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California, May 24, 1978
Joseph Wilfer, "Marko Spalatin: Graphic Work 1968‑1978" (retrospective exhibition catalog introduction), Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, 1978
Karen Bornstein, "Marko Spalatin," New Art Examiner, Chicago, Illinois, December 1980
James Auer, "Spalatin Show Tingles with Energy," Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 24, 1981
Gayle Crum, "Nature's Forms," Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin, October 9, 1981
Carmen Elsner, "Forms, Underwater Sights Influence Spalatin," Wisconsin State Journal, October 13, 1981
Warrington Colescott, "Wisconsin Prints and Printmakers," Wisconsin Academy Review, March 1983
Jacqueline Hall, "Dazzling Paintings Highlight Show," Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, May 29, 1983
Brane Ković, "Spalatin's Nautical Forms" (exhibition catalog essay), Galeria Solkan, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, April 1984
Ervin Y. Rodin, series ed., "Marko Spalatin" (biographical text), Symmetry, Istvαn Hargittai, ed., Pergamon Press, Ltd., New York, 1986
Vladimir P. Goss, "Marko Spalatin" (exhibition essay), Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, May 1988
F. Ross, "Artist AppIies Contemporary Vision ," News of Orange County, HiIlsborough, North Carolina, June 1, 1988
Alexander K. Shiroka, "Horizons '89" (catalog essay), World Biennale of Croatian Art, Toronto/Vancouver/Calgary, Canada, October 1989
Ivan vertasek, "Marko Spalatin" (retrospective exhibition essay), Nacionalna Biblioteka, Zagreb, Croatia, November 16, 1989
Edward J. Sozanski, "Adherent of Op Art Explores New Angles," Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 15, 1991
Dawna Camper, "Marko Spalatin's Dazzling Abstractions," Art Look, Indianapolis, lndiana, Spring 1994
Vladimir P. Goss, "Interview with Marko Spalatin," Hrvatski Obzor, Zagreb, Croatia, July 3, 1995
James Auer, "These Artists, Their Works Are Always in Motion," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 20, 1999
James Auer, "Artist Explores Niche in Series of New Paintings," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 22, 2002
Lilijana Domić and Vladimir P. Goss, "Marko Spalatin: Prints 1979-2001" (exhibition catalog essays), Croatian Academy of Art, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2003
sometimes misspelled Marco Spalatin, Spaltin, Splatin, Spalitan, Spalitin, Spatalin
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