Jason Andrew on Jacqueline Gourevitch
Two Coats of Paint
June 14, 2025
Jacqueline Gourevitch’s resilience stems from restraint and slow observation. From her first solo exhibition in 1958 to the current striking survey of 21 cloud paintings dating from 1965–2018 at Storage Gallery in Tribeca, the nonagenarian has shown that sustained attention to a single subject can yield infinite and dynamic variations.
Numerically ordering each work, Gourevitch brings boldness and virtuosity to Cloud Painting #60: Homage to Mondrian’s Red Cloud. Apparently painting with the maximum freedom and speed, she manifests confidence and intensity while conveying the emotional value of a languid summer sunset. In the context of the exhibition, the piece shows that Gourevitch can be a disrupter. Cloud Painting #190 and Cloud Painting #203 shows muscularity in her subtlety. Broad brushstrokes tinged with umber are psychic improvisations, demonstrating Gourevitch’s lyrical control and sensitivity to atmospheric rhythms. Just as Agnes Martin had her meditative lines as structural references for her linear gestures, Gourevitch has her clouds. And as a subject, they have proven to be resilient, vast, and transcendent. – Jason Andrew