About PAUL GLABICKI | PAUL GLABICKI

Still Image: “Under the Sea” (1989)

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 and Filmmaking) at Ohio University. His exhibition career has included major film festivals, numerous individual and group screenings, and 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 at the University of Pittsburgh.

Still Image: “Object Conversation” (1985)

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 Centre for Art and Architecture in Montreal, The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles Film Forum, California Institute of the Arts, the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the Museum of Art Oviedo in Spain, the American Museum of the Moving Image, Itoki Gallery and the Hiroshima International Animation Festival in Japan, the Carnegie Museum of Art and Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art in Germany, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology in Liverpool, UK, the Art Miami, the 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 in New York, and in numerous museum and private collections. He is represented by Kim Foster Gallery, New York.

Kim Foster Gallery: The Light Exhibition (2016)

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, the American Film Institute, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He received the Ohio University Alumni Medal of Merit for Achievement in Film, Art, and Education. In 2001, he was honored as the “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.