RON GORCHOV – AT THE CUSP OF THE 80s, PAINTINGS 1979–1983
2019-09-23The new exhibition will feature rarely seen works that Gorchov made more than a decade after he developed his unique method of working on a curved surface, which he began in 1966 and brought to fruition the following year with his first “saddle” paintings, a format he has continued to explore ever since.
By the close of the 1970s, Gorchov’s work had already been included in the Whitney Museum’s survey exhibition, Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six, and in two of its biennials, in 1975 and 1977, the year that Morris Kearse published a feature story on the artist in Artforum about his work.
Kearse wrote, “Gorchov set out to resolve the uncertainty in his own way.” His use of the shaped canvas “argues, as it were,
with flatness,” and while he “does not use paint as an illusory artifice, […] neither does he attempt to conceal allusions
to depth implied by the multiple layers in his work.”
Opposite – VIZIOSO, 1982
Exhibition runs through to November 2nd, 2019
Cheim & Read
23 East 67th Street
10065 New York
