In 2005, Vito Schnabel organized Ron Gorchov’s first solo show in New York in over a decade, focusing on his output in the 1970s in a pop-up exhibition in an oversize vacant showroom in Soho. The same body of work features in another real estate spectacle, a former stables in the West Village, replete with original, slatted wall sidings Between these two outings of early works this veteran master of abstraction has seen belated and well-deserved adulation in the forms of exhibitions and critical attention. Reviewing Vito Schnabel’s 2005 show in these pages, David Cohen wrote of one of Gorchov’s stack paintings, “The experience combines fairground, stage-set, Stonehenge, and all the theory you have ever read about support and surface, illusion and reality.” Pictured here, a stack flanked by two of Gorchov’s trademark paintings on constructed supports, works whose saddle-like structure takes on new meaning in the present surroundings.
360 West 11th Street, New York, NY (646) 386-2246 – on view through December 16
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