Paul Glabicki’s career and creative work have been characterized by highly interdisciplinary activity centered in painting, drawing, and filmmaking, and extending into photography, installation art, video art, sound, and electronic media. His educational background includes a B.F.A. in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University, and two M.F.A. degrees (Painting, Filmmaking) at Ohio University. His exhibition career has included major film festivals, numerous individual and group screenings, national / international museum and gallery exhibitions. He has also taught and lectured as a visiting artist at institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. He has taught at Ohio University (1975-76), and is now Professor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh.
Much of his work has been involved with issues of time, motion (actual or implied), temporal experience, perception, analytical observation, thresholds of figurative and abstract representation, language systems and semiotics, methods of analysis and interpretation, and transformation of found images, thematic material or actual sites. His work has been exhibited internationally. A selection of exhibitions includes: the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center, the Cannes Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of Art in New York (Whitney Biennial), the Venice Biennale, the Image Forum in Tokyo, the Hirshorn Museum and The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, The Canadian Center for Art & Architecture in Montreal, The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Film Forum, California Institute of the Arts, The Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati, The Museum of Art Oviedo in Spain, American Museum of the Moving Image, Itoki Gallery and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan, Carnegie Museum of Art and Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool/UK, Art Miami, National Gallery of Art Vilnius in Lithuania, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. His work is included in the archives and collections of the IotaCenter and the Motion Picture Academy Archives in Los Angeles; the Motion Picture Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills; the International Animation Library of Japan; the ASIFA Animation Archive in Berlin; the Anthology Film Archives, New York, and in numerous museum and private collections. He is represented by Kim Foster Gallery, New York.
Throughout his career, Glabicki has received numerous awards, prizes, and honors for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Film Institute, and Pennsylvania Council for the Arts. He received the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit for Achievement in Film, Art, and Education. In 2001, he was honored as “Artist of the Year” by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. His work is also cited in numerous books and publications on film, film history, art and solo/group exhibitions.
Collage, Pencil, Ink, Prismacolor on inkjet print
From the ORDER drawing series: “ORDER # 8” (2011)