In Conversation: Jacqueline Gourevitch & Glenn Ligon
Wednesday, June 25th at 4pm
Storage Tribeca
52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013
Please join us for a conversation between Jacqueline Gourevitch and Glenn Ligon.
Gourevitch taught at multiple universities including Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where she was Ligon's undergraduate painting professor.
“Jacqueline Gourevitch, my painting teacher at Wesleyan University, was a big influence. She was having lunch with a colleague in the faculty dining hall and told him I was an unusual student: when she set up a still life of flowers in a vase for the class, I painted the shelf the vase was on, then the vase, then the flowers in it. (This was reported to me by a classmate of mine who was working in the dining room at the time.) It was the first time I realized the way I did things was different from other artists and that uniqueness was a thing to value, not to suppress.”
– Glenn Ligon, for Poetry Society of America
Jacqueline Gourevitch (b. 1933) 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.
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.
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982), studying with Jacqueline Gourevitch amongst others.
In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective, ‘Glenn Ligon: AMERICA,’ organized by Scott Rothkopf, that traveled nationally. Important solo exhibitions include ‘All Over the Place,’ The Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, England (2024); ‘Post-Noir,’ Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2022); and ‘Glenn Ligon: Call and Response,’ Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (2014). Select curatorial projects include ‘Grief and Grievance,’ New Museum, New York NY (2021); ‘Blue Black,’ Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis MO (2017); and ‘Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,’ Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool, UK (2015). Ligon’s work has been shown in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997).