[...] I think painting, per se, is an ideal way to criticize the work you already admire because that way you can take the best things in it and try to make your work to be the next consequential step. I mean, to me, that’s a given tradition in creative thought: to build on what you’re seeing that you love and try to bring it to new and unknown terrain.[...] Ron Gorchov in conversation with Robert Stort and Phong Bui for the Brooklyn Rail in 2006. . . #rongorchov #robertstorr #phongbui #brooklynrail #shapedcanvas #stackpainting #newyork #minimalism _______ In the picture: Ron Gorchov, “Eurygius”, 2017.










