High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jack Lembeck is an American painter and sculptor known for his Abstract Illusionism paintings and installation art. One of the most celebrated of the Abstract Illusionists in the 1970s and 1980s, Lembeck received a BFA from Kansas University and an MFA from Yale in 1970, where he remained as an instructor in Yale's art department until 1972. Lembeck then established a career in SoHo as a professional artist, exhibiting his paintings with the Louis K. Meisel Gallery and nationally and internationally. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, The Phoenix Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Orlando Museum of Art, among others