Jacqueline Gourevitch
Jacqueline Gourevitch (b. 1933, France) moved to the United States in 1940, and now lives and works in Lower Manhattan. She studied at Black Mountain College with Stamos and Clement Greenberg and began exhibiting in the mid-1950s while at the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gourevitch was included in the 1973 Whitney Biennial and in 1975 showed at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut as part of their Matrix series. In 2015, Helen Molesworth included her work in Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Works from Gourevitch’s series, “City Paintings”, were made while looking down from high windows during a residency at the original World Trade Center in 2000. More recently, she has incorporated views from new buildings at #4 and #7 in the reconstructed World Trade Center complex. Work from “Terrain/In Flight” paintings are sometimes based on graphite drawings and notes made while flying and looking down at the earth’s surface.
Gourevitch has also exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Morgan Library & Museum, New York; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, among others. Her pieces are included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California; Menil Collection, Houston; Morgan Library & Museum, New York; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, among others.
Selected Works
