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Ron Gorchov (born 1930) is an American artist who has been working with curved surface paintings and shaped canvases since 1967.〔Ron Gorchov, Answers to Gavin Spanierman Questionnaire, 2007〕 Gorchov's primary invention consists of finely fitted, curved wooden frames resembling shields or saddles, across which is stretched linen or canvas. He uses simple paired strokes to create images that play with asymmetry within a basically symmetrical design, creating his emblematic doubled or mirrored image.〔Robert Storr, catalog essay, 1990〕 Gorchov's paintings are included in many prominent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Institute of Art, and the Guggenheim. == Biography == Gorchov's career as an artist began in 1944, at the age of fourteen, when he began taking classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of his fellow students were servicemen returning from World War II who used G.I. Bill benefits to pay for art materials. "A veteran... gave me a paper bag with all his half-squeezed oil paint tubes and a whole bunch of old brushes and he said they'd be good luck.".〔Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006〕 Gorchov attended the University of Mississippi in 1947 and called it "the most unlikely place I could go. The deep south was exotic. I went fishing with William Faulkner...but because of the horrific racial problem I was mentally not at all able to think about art."〔Ron Gorchov with Robert Storr and Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2006〕 Gorchov returned to Chicago and took both academic and art classes at Roosevelt College and the Art Institute. In 1953, Gorchov came to New York with his wife and newborn son and eighty dollars. The family moved into the Marlton Hotel, across the street from where the Whitney Museum used to be and what is now the New York Studio School. Gorchov's career has included impressive showings at Susan Caldwell and Pat Hamilton galleries in the 1970s, followed by Hamilton, Marlborough, and Jack Tilton galleries in New York and galerie m in Germany in the 1980s. In 1972, Gorchov installed two of his "experiments in neocontructivism: multipaneled stacks of heraldic monochromes" 〔Robert Storr, ArtForum, September 2005〕 at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York. One of these stacked works, titled ''Set'', was later included in ''Rooms'', the inaugural exhibition at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 1976, while the other, titled ''Entrance,'' was also exhibited at P.S. 1 in 1979. In 2006 Gorchov's work was again shown at P.S. 1 in a solo show titled ''Ron Gorchov: Double Trouble.'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ron Gorchov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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