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James Kalm visits the exhibition Painting Toward Three Dimensions at Galerie Richard, New York. The show, featuring paintings by Bram Bogart, Ron Gorchov and Takesada Matsutani, was closed due to flooding from Hurricane Sandy.
All three painters move painting beyond two-dimensions. Kalm notes that "The works of both Bogart and Matsutani explore the use of unique painting materials while Gorchov develops a body of work questioning the basic concept of the rectangular flat picture plain."
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Paintings shouldn't simply be seen, they should change the viewer, suspend him or her in an altered moment. A recent visit to exhibitions by Adolph Gottlieb, Ron Gorchov, and Douglas Florian proved one's sense of time and place can, indeed, be altered by a colored surface.
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Robert C. Morgan reviews the exhibition Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through April 28. 2012.
Morgan writes that Gorchov "knows where he is going without imposing his intentions – not even on himself. I would say Gorchov is as open and clear as any painter I have meant. His idea is his image, and his image is his idea. In recent years he has taken the saddle form – that he employs to accentuate the perceptual aspect of how we see form in painting – as if to ask: 'Why does painting require a rectangle?' Gorchov does not paint in the laboratory sense of trying to prove something. Rather he simply states that the convex saddle is closer to how we perceive than the hardened rectangle. This is the given in his work, and he moves ahead from there, often with extraordinarily lyrical results."
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James Kalm visits the exhibition of new paintings by Ron Gorchov at Cheim & Read, New York, on view through April 28, 2012.
Kalm notes "in the late sixties that Gorchov devised his unique painting support, often referred to as a 'saddle shape.' The use of this convex surface was a refutation of Clement Greenberg's dogmatic idea that the picture plane must be flat, and rectangular. Along with his 'saddle shape' canvases Gorchov has developed a 'stack' format, a series of curved planes overlaying each other, that he paints sophisticated color studies on. This exhibition presents recent examples of Gorchov's works that display his innovative comingling of painting and sculpture and the mastery of his means."
