The social realism of the thirties and forties had been
superseded by abstraction; formalist issues were fiercely debated, and form itself seemed to be the subject of much of the work to be seen.
Mr. Stanczak remained affiliated with the Martha Jackson Gallery until it closed in 1979,
by which time Op Art had been largely
superseded by Minimalism and other more austere kinds of geometric
abstraction — at least within the confines of New York.