Madelyn Grace on Jacqueline Gourevitch
Cultbytes
June 30, 2025

Underneath a painting on the right wall of Storage at 52 Walker Street is a piece of paper stapled to the edge of the bottom left corner: “#203 Bach,” Jacqueline Gourevitch shares that she thought the image moved similarly to his music. I want to ask if he was playing while she was painting, but I’m interrupted by a request to explain the piece. A girl asks when it was done. Gourevitch claims she doesn’t know, but when she guesses the year “2000,” she’s exactly right.

Gourevitch’s exhibition at artist and curator Onyedike Chuke’s sunny gallery in Tribeca spans work from 1965-2018. While the dates are as encompassing as a retrospective, the exhibition is solely dedicated to her work with clouds-as-subjects, a series that spans the length of her career and continues still. However, the show does not progress through time in quantifiable difference. It does not develop past its throughline. It’s all sky, a universal nature, regardless of history and outside of identity. – Madelyn Grace