name | Ian Hornak |
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birth name | John Francis Hornak (later changed to Ian John Hornak) |
birth date | January 09, 1944 |
birth place | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
death date | December 09, 2002 |
death place | Southampton, New York
Interred: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
nationality | American (United States) |
residence | East Hampton, New York, New York City, New York |
field | Painting, Drawing, Printmaking |
training | University of Michigan, Wayne State University |
movement | Hyperrealism |
website | ianhornak.com |
Ian Hornak (January 9, 1944, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 9, 2002, Southampton, New York) was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker associated with the Hyperrealist art movement.
Ian Hornak produced hyper-realistic and photorealist artwork with surreal overtones in the midst of the pop art movement. He was introduced into the New York art scene in 1968 by Pop Artist, Lowell Blair Nesbitt, whom Hornak lived and worked with until 1969. By 1971 he maintained his primary residence and studio in East Hampton, NY and a secondary penthouse studio in New York City at 116 East 73rd Street near the corner of Park Avenue. While living in East Hampton Hornak came to work with and befriend renown art world figures, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Fairfield Porter.
In 1969 Hornak was showing in New York in group exhibitions at Eleanor Ward's Stable Gallery and by 1970 upon the suggestion of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Nephew, Jason McCoy (assistant director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery), he had entered into an exclusive contract with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery on West 57th Street (Manhattan), a relationship that produced the artists first New York Solo exhibition in 1971. Ian Hornak remained with the Tibor de Nagy Gallery until 1977 and in 1978 chose the Fischbach Gallery of West 57th Street (Manhattan) in New York to be his primary gallery, a partnership that lasted until 1984. In 1986 he entered into an exclusive contract with the Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery of SoHo and latter East 57th Street (Manhattan) where he remained until his death in 2002.
The artists early works were pen & ink drawings and acrylic paintings of floating figures both clothed and nude, in addition to an erotic art series. In 1970 Hornak began to produce primarily traditional landscapes in addition to conceptual multiple exposure landscapes in the medium of acrylic, pen & ink and or pencil many of which the subject matter was focused in or around the artist's residence and studio in East Hampton, New York. John Gruen of Arts Magazine in 1975 remarked "Ian Hornak's paintings are frankly dangerous. There is about them the unnerving suggestion of the melodramatic, the lushly romantic." From 1985 until 2002 he produced Dutch & Flemish-inspired botanical and still life paintings with 4-6 inch painted frames where the artist extended the imagery of the primary painting onto the frame itself. Author and Poet Gerrit Henry said of these works in Art in America Magazine in 1994 "Hornak's is a rather self-explanatory if not wholly tautological postmodernism. Perhaps, though, his excesses ring true for the approaching millennium: this is "end-time" painting that exercises its romantic license to the fullest in its presentation of multiple styles of the last fin de siecle - naturalist, symbolist, allegorical, apocalyptic." Throughout his career Ian Hornak's instruments of choice were the brush, pencil and pen; never did he resort to the creation of mixed media works or employ the use such devices as the airbrush. The artist often cited the Hudson River School artists as major influences, especially Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Edwin Church in addition to Nineteenth-Century German Romantic Artist, Caspar David Friedrich. Ian Hornak suffered an aortic aneurysm on November 17, 2002 while painting in his studio in East Hampton, New York. Though Hornak was immediately rushed to the Southampton Hospital in New York and surgery was performed to repair the aorta, he died on December 9, 2002 as a result of complications from the surgery. He was 58 years old.
In 2007 Ian Hornak's personal papers and effects were inducted into the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art, in 2010 a artwork by Ian Hornak was inducted into the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art and in 2011 the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History acquired artwork by Ian Hornak for their permanent collection. Ian Hornak was interred in a private section (not accessible by the public) of the Great Mausoleum in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale in California on January 21, 2011. A traveling retrospective exhibition of Ian Hornak's artwork is scheduled to be hosted by the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California in 2012, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the Eccles Building located in Washington D.C. in 2012-2013 and the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland in 2013.
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