In Conversation: Jacqueline Gourevitch & Philip Gourevitch
Thursday, May 29th at 6:30pm
Storage Tribeca
52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013
Please join us for a conversation presenting an intimate exploration of Jacqueline Gourevitch's work from the perspective of her son, Philip Gourevitch.
The mother and son duo will be in conversation with Storage’s director, Onyedika Chuke, exploring the artist's work, notions of tension, and history within a family structure.
Jacqueline Gourevitch was born in 1933 in Paris, 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 started her ongoing series of “Cloud Paintings” in the 1960s. Her ethereal, close-cropped clouds evoke genres of painting as disparate as romantic landscape and abstract expressionism without straying from her singular vision. A keen understanding of the light and color of the sky distinguishes the work from what at first glance could be color field compositions rendered in neutral tones. Whites, greys, and blues delicately meld in ways that both carefully reflect and reinterpret a storm about to break.
Gourevitch has 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.
Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995 and a staff writer since 1997. He has travelled extensively for the magazine, reporting from Africa, Asia, Europe, and across the United States. He has written about the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia; the dictatorships of Mobutu Sese Seko, in Congo, and Robert Mugabe, in Zimbabwe; the Tamil Tigers, in Sri Lanka; Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front, in France; and the American soldiers who served at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. He has also written about arranged marriages in Queens, a debt collector in Tulsa, and the late musician James Brown in Augusta, Georgia, and solving a cold-case double homicide in Manhattan. He also wrote extensively about the early years of the war in Iraq, and, in 2004, he served as the magazine’s Washington correspondent, covering the Presidential election campaigns. His articles for The New Yorker have on three occasions been finalists for the National Magazine Award and have twice received citations for excellence from the Overseas Press Club.
From 2005 to 2010, Gourevitch served as editor of The Paris Review. He is the author of three books: “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008), “A Cold Case” (2001), and “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda” (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the George K. Polk Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award, and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. His books, articles, and short stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is at work on a new book, “You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know.”