Jack Ceglic

JACK CEGLIC

JACK DR AWINGS AND PAINTINGS BY JACK CEGLIC 2009 - 2012

Ab o u t J a ck For someone (like me) living alone and in over his head with a new house and fading funds, Jack was the perfect neighbor. This was back in the early 1990s, at the tail end of another recession, when I was near broke and desperate to carve out a little writing time away from teaching and the absurd social demands of city life. Jack was the guy waving hello from his driveway next door, always working away in his garden, busy giving orders to a small army of mostly young people traipsing in and out of his beautifully designed house next door. I had no idea that he and his partner, Joel Dean, were the creators of the store in SoHo that I loved so much, or why there always seemed to be a photographer taking pictures of them and their house. When Jack knocked on my front door while I was trying to write I wasn’t exactly welcoming. I was, if I remember correctly, preoccupied, anxious, and impatient.

He didn’t seem to mind. In fact, he seemed to be enjoying a situation others would find awkward.

This was my introduction to a quality I’ve always envied about him. With prescience and a refined intuition he learns people quickly. In fact, he seemed to know more about me than I did. I was a writer, a bit jumpy, easily perturbed, someone who needed to prepare himself to be social. Freud tells us that we’re cured when we can see ourselves as others do almost immediately. Though only one of us was gracious, and at home in his observations, Jack must’ve decided that I was worth the trouble.

The art of recognizing and respecting boundaries is only one of Jack’s qualities. Perhaps it requires the kind of keenness of observation and objective sensitivity that goes into original design and portraits. I’ve known many artists but never one who so completely designed every aspect of his world. From his house to his dress, to the food he eats and the brushes, oils and canvases he paints on, the details of his life feels both ordained and fully realized. Visiting him for dinner isn’t unlike looking at one of his portraits. You’re visiting his perception of a world entirely his own, one in which you feel privileged and welcomed, appreciated and recognized.

Within what seemed only a few fleeting moments after our first meeting, I had a dog, a wife (the sculptor Monica Banks) pregnant with our second son, a new book, and while Jack now lived in a new beautifully designed house around the corner, he was our close friend who, seeing we needed a new addition to our house, drew on the back of a napkin a design that would become our new home. It wasn’t unlike one of his portraits, inspiration filtered through a prism of instinct and hospitality. Yes, Jack, who helped change the idea of contemporary design, also designed and supervised the construction of our future.

And if I’d been more welcoming that spring day when he knocked on my door? It’s not a question I can comfortably answer. But ask Jack, who would know the answer.

Philip Schultz

Philip Schultz, the founder and director of The Writers Studio, won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2008. He lives in East Hampton, NY with his wife, the sculptor Monica Banks, and their two sons.

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dat e S 1957

Graduated from the Parsons School of Design, New York

1958

Met Joel Dean in the West Village

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Fire Island Pines Dune drawings

1963 Illustrations for magazines 1966

First show at the Greer Gallery, New York

1967 Los Angeles show that afforded me a subscription to

the Metropolitan Opera

1968

Portrait included in West Coast show with Andy and Sargent

1970 Moved to SoHo First studio 1972 Met Felipe Rojas-Lombardi 1977 Opened Dean & Deluca, New York 1979 Opened Dean & Deluca, East Hampton, NY 1980 Started my garden, East Hampton, NY 1990 Expanded my vision to metal and built the Railroad House, East Hampton, NY 1996

Published the Dean & Deluca cookbook

2004 Joel died. The world I knew ended, another started 2009 Drew Carmen, the first blue portrait Show in Brooklyn, NY 2010 Joe’s Watermill metal houses compound completed,

Watermill, NY My Pekinese Lily died

Built new studio, East Hampton, NY 2012 City hall with Manuel Casteleiro

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T H AN K Y OU TO ALL M Y FR I ENDS AND M ODELS

Abdiel, Ace, Alessandra, Alessandra B, Alex, Alice, Amanda Mae, Amber, Andy, Anthony, Arlene, Augie, Barry, Barbara, Barbara T, Beau, Becky, Bill, Billy, Bonnie, Bret, Brian, Britta, Carly, Carley, Carol, Charlie M, Charlie G, Charles, Catherine, Chris, Christa, Christof, Christopher, Cindy, Claudia, Cody, Curtis, Dale, David, Debby, Denise, Derban, Diana, Dianne, Don, Dorianne, Eduardo, Eileen, Elaine, Eliazar, Elizabeth, Eric, Eva, Flavia, Florence, Francoise, Franklin, Georgine, Giorgio, Gheri, Glenn, Greg, Harriet, Heather, Hitome, Iva, Isabella, Jake, Jane, Janet, Jayson, Jennifer, Jeannie, Jenny, Jess, Jessica, Jessie, Jim, Jonathan K, Jonathan S, Joe, Joel, Jose, Julia, Julie, Julie R, Katie, Ken, Kendell, Kevin, Kirsten, Leanna, Lennie, Linda H, Linda M, Lisa, Lucas, Manuel, Manny, Mbachi, Maria, Mark, Mark F, Mark P, Mark T, Margie, Matt, Max, Mel, Merry F, Michael, Michael M, Michael P, Miles, Monica, Moss, Mylan, Naome, Neil, Nelly, Nicholas, Nicolette, Noel, Olga, Olivia, Paul, Paula, Peri, Phil, Renee, Robbie, Robert J, Robert M, Robert H, Ron, Russ, Ruth, Samantha, Sara, Scott, Sergio, Steve M, Steve K, Sean, Susan, Susan P, Susan Y, Sydney, Traute, Terry, Tom M, Tom F, Tony, Turid, Virginia, and Zoe.

PHOTOGRAPHER

ANTOINE BOOTZ

PUBLISHER / EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPER

GARY MAMAY

SUZANNE SLESIN CREATIVE DIRECTOR FREDERICO FARINA

Jack: Drawings and Paintings by Jack Ceglic, 2009-2012 Š 2013 Jack Ceglic. All rights reserved under international copyright conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, utilized, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, or otherwise, without written permition in writting from Pointed Leaf Press.

Inquires should be addressed to: Pointed Leaf Press, LLC., 136 Baxter Street Suite 1C, New York, NY 10013 Printed in Italy. First Edition ISBN: 978-1-938461-11-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013940904

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T H AN K Y OU TO ALL M Y FR I ENDS AND M ODELS

Abdiel, Ace, Alessandra, Alessandra B, Alex, Alice, Amanda Mae, Amber, Andy, Anthony, Arlene, Augie, Barry, Barbara, Barbara T, Beau, Becky, Bill, Billy, Bonnie, Bret, Brian, Britta, Carly, Carley, Carol, Charlie M, Charlie G, Charles, Catherine, Chris, Christa, Christof, Christopher, Cindy, Claudia, Cody, Curtis, Dale, David, Debby, Denise, Derban, Diana, Dianne, Don, Dorianne, Eduardo, Eileen, Elaine, Eliazar, Elizabeth, Eric, Eva, Flavia, Florence, Francoise, Franklin, Georgine, Giorgio, Gheri, Glenn, Greg, Harriet, Heather, Hitome, Iva, Isabella, Jake, Jane, Janet, Jayson, Jennifer, Jeannie, Jenny, Jess, Jessica, Jessie, Jim, Jonathan K, Jonathan S, Joe, Joel, Jose, Julia, Julie, Julie R, Katie, Ken, Kendell, Kevin, Kirsten, Leanna, Lennie, Linda H, Linda M, Lisa, Lucas, Manuel, Manny, Mbachi, Maria, Mark, Mark F, Mark P, Mark T, Margie, Matt, Max, Mel, Merry F, Michael, Michael M, Michael P, Miles, Monica, Moss, Mylan, Naome, Neil, Nelly, Nicholas, Nicolette, Noel, Olga, Olivia, Paul, Paula, Peri, Phil, Renee, Robbie, Robert J, Robert M, Robert H, Ron, Russ, Ruth, Samantha, Sara, Scott, Sergio, Steve M, Steve K, Sean, Susan, Susan P, Susan Y, Sydney, Traute, Terry, Tom M, Tom F, Tony, Turid, Virginia, and Zoe.

PHOTOGRAPHER

ANTOINE BOOTZ

PUBLISHER / EDITORIAL DIRECTOR

ARTWORK PHOTOGRAPER

GARY MAMAY

SUZANNE SLESIN CREATIVE DIRECTOR FREDERICO FARINA

Jack: Drawings and Paintings by Jack Ceglic, 2009-2012 Š 2013 Jack Ceglic. All rights reserved under international copyright conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced, utilized, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, or otherwise, without written permition in writting from Pointed Leaf Press.

Inquires should be addressed to: Pointed Leaf Press, LLC., 136 Baxter Street Suite 1C, New York, NY 10013 Printed in Italy. First Edition ISBN: 978-1-938461-11-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2013940904

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