Jacqueline Gourevitch, Cloud Painting #1, 1965, Oil on linen, 50 × 40 in.
William Corwin on Jacqueline Gourevitch
The Brooklyn Rail
July 2025
Gourevitch places the viewer in an odd position or extraordinary place in order to remove the land from the equation. In doing that she creates a very personal form of landscape indeed—she makes the viewer the land, responding to the object, which is the sky. Many of the painter’s series, simultaneous to the cloud paintings in this exhibition, also play with landscape from the top or from the bottom—views of terra firma from an airplane, or cities viewed from a skyscraper looking down, with minimal or no sky at all. Landscape without the duality of earth and sky becomes disembodied, and the forms we take for granted; trees, buildings, and rivers become diagrammatic. –William Corwin