The Shade Between : Ron Gorchov
"Gorchov belongs to a generation of painters who removed their canvases from the rectangular stretcher, seeking a new pictorial field..."
Ron Gorchov's third solo exhibition at our gallery, titled The Shade Between, exhibits twenty works.
Bridging sculpture and abstract painting, Gorchov has developed a singular artistic vocabulary over his decades of practice. His oil on linen paintings pair one or two biomorphic colored shapes against differently colored backgrounds, in addition to hanging his work on a shaped canvas stretcher that is at once concave and convex, a shape critics have compared to shields or saddles. Gorchov belongs to a generation of painters who removed their canvases from the rectangular stretcher, seeking a new pictorial field, yet he is unique in his ability to unite form and content while preserving their tensions.
Critic Robert C. Morgan wrote of Gorchov that he does not paint to make a point: “Rather he simply states that the convex saddle is closer to how we perceive than the hardened rectangle. This is the given in his work, and he moves ahead from there, often with extraordinarily lyrical results.”
Gorchov’s paintings are included in renowned collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Detroit Institutes of Art, Michigan; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Everson Museum of Art, New York.
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Ron GorchovAlcinous, 2017Casein on linen88.9 x 114.3 x 24.13 cm
35 x 45 x 9 1/2 in -
Ron GorchovTros, 2018oil on linen127.5 x 142 x 32 cm
50 3/16 x 55 14/16 x 12 9/16 in -
Ron GorchovIambe, 2018oil on linen87 x 114 x 24 cm
34 4/16 x 44 14/16 x 9 7/16 in -
Ron GorchovNycteis, 2018oil on linen89.5 x 114 x 23.5 cm
35 3/16 x 44 14/16 x 9 4/16 in -
Ron GorchovHippolyte, 2016oil on linen244 x 198 x 32 cm
96 1/16 x 77 15/16 x 12 9/16 in -
Ron GorchovDardanus, 2018oil on linen112 x 91.5 x 23 cm
44 1/16 x 36 1/16 x 9 1/16 in -
Ron GorchovPromenade, 1985oil on linen204.5 x 174.5 x 25 cm
80 8/16 x 68 11/16 x 9 13/16 in -
Ron GorchovCallisto, 1983oil on linen on shaped stretcher70.5 x 49.8 cm
27 12/16 x 19 9/16 in -
Ron Gorchov, Painting, 1981-2017
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Ron GorchovSundial, 1982oil on canvas on shaped stretcher76.5 x 74.9 x 20.3 cm
30 1/16 x 29 7/16 x 7 15/16 in -
Ron GorchovBacchus, 2019oil on linen69.85 x 55.88 x 15.875 cm
27 1/2 x 22 x 6 1/4 in -
Ron GorchovCläis, 2016oil on linen129 x 112.89 x 20.5 cm
50 12/16 x 44 7/16 x 8 1/16 in -
Ron GorchovLibitina, 2017Rabbit skin glue and pigment on linen112 x 89 x 20 cm
44 1/16 x 35 1/16 x 7 13/16 in -
Ron GorchovMerope, 2019oil on linen137.16 x 167.005 x 35.56 cm
54 x 65 3/4 x 14 in -
Ron GorchovCallithoe, 2018oil on linen54.5 x 73 x 17 cm
21 7/16 x 28 11/16 x 6 11/16 in -
Ron GorchovRelic, 2018oil on linen167.5 x 140 x 32 cm
65 15/16 x 55 1/16 x 12 9/16 in -
Ron GorchovRhoeo, 2019oil on linen69 x 59.5 x 16.51 cm
27 2/16 x 23 6/16 x 6 1/2 in -
Ron GorchovAlastor, 2019oil on linen35.56 x 44.45 x 10.16 cm
14 x 17 1/2 x 4 in
