Paintings 1965 - 2018
Storage is pleased to present the work of Jacqueline Gourevitch (b. 1993 Paris, FR) dated between the years of 1965 and 2018. Gourevitch’s paintings inhabit the precise edge between representation and abstraction. As such, they embrace investigations of light and pictorial space. The show is on view from May 9th to June 21, 2025.
Jacqueline Gourevitch was born in 1933 in Paris. Preempting the Nazi occupation of France, the Gourevitch family immigrated to the United States in 1940, arriving at Ellis Island. In 1950, she studied at Black Mountain College, a school with an illustrious faculty list that included Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Josef Albers, and Ben Shahn. Among the student body at the time were Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Noland, and Cy Twombly. In 1973 Gourevitch was included in the Whitney Biennial. In 1975, she 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 1933–1957at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Gourevitch began her ongoing series of “Cloud Paintings” in the 1960s. Her ethereal, close-cropped clouds evoke various genres of painting— from abstraction and Fauvist landscapes to Abstract Expressionism— without straying from her singular vision. A keen understanding of the light and color of the sky distinguishes her work from what might initially appear to be color field compositions rendered in neutral tones. Whites, greys, and blues delicately meld in ways that both carefully reflect and reinterpret the moment before a storm breaks.
In 1993, Gourevitch attained a studio in the former World Trade Center. In 2003, she began her current tenure in the new towers and has continued to paint clouds from the 80th floor. With her perspective on clouds while painting atop the 80th floor, Gourevitch plays with distance and depth to locate the precise moments where the outside world becomes legible to the human eye. Her paintings manifest as meditations on the act of painting itself, on abstraction, on landscape, and on vision that edges into the philosophical.
Her cloud paintings suggest light that bleeds from outside of the canvas, lending an expansiveness that stretches beyond the pictorial edge. Within the frames boundaries, however, she meticulously pays attention to subtle gradations of light and shade. Gourevitch’s sense of space and detail allow her the ability to balance light and space with unspeakable ethereality and sublimity.
Gourevitch’s paintings stand apart from the vigorous abstraction favored by many of her contemporaries. Her paintings also lack the whimsical humor found in the work of her close friend and colleague, June Leaf. Instead, in their quietude and outward gaze, her paintings most closely recall Helen Frankenthaler, only turned skyward. In this way, Jacqueline Gourevitch creates her own subtle and vast visual world, one that continually reflects on how we see and experience nature.
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Opening Reception
Friday, May 9th from 6-8pmStorage Tribeca
52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013Additional Programming To Be Announced
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Storage is an artist-run gallery founded by Onyedika Chuke on the ideals of community, discovery, and connoisseurship. With locations in Tribeca and with a viewing room on the Bowery, Storage acts as an archive of makers that work in a range of materials and come from a wide demographic background. Half of the roster is dedicated to reinvigorating the careers of artists of historical prominence, while the other half focuses on nurturing rising artists. With a strong focus on art by women and people of color, Chuke guides Storage’s nontraditional approach to community building, commerce, and mutual aid.