JACQUELINE GOUREVITCH

"I am interested in making paintings that call for close scrutiny and, like the world around us, reveal themselves gradually over time, inviting surprise and further contemplation. In painting clouds or the terrain below as seen while flying, I observe and respond to how it all hangs together, above and below, floor plan and elevation.”

Jacqueline Gourevitch began her on-going series of Cloud Paintings in the 60's. In these works she is as focused on the great range of clouds to be seen as on the many ways they can be painted. Gourevitch began exhibiting while studying at the University of Chicago and at the Chicago Art Institute. She has had over 30 solo shows.

Her work is in the collections of: The Wadsworth Antheneum, The DeCordova Museum, Wesleyan University, and The Museum of the City of New York, to name but a few. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, was an Artist-in-Residence at Tamarind, won the Obrig Prize at the National Academy Museum in 2002, and in 2004 she received an Academy Award in Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.