From the Archives: Ron Gorchov at Fischbach Gallery

The painter Ron Gorchov died on August 18, at age ninety. In celebration of his work, we are sharing this review of Gorchov’s 1975 solo show at Fischbach Gallery by Edit deAk, published in our September–October 1975 issue. —Eds.
The recurring elements in Ron Gorchov’s shaped canvases are two marks in the center of a color field. The marks are symmetrical and vertical, and they reflect each other as the two sides of the human body do. The paintings themselves are