Ron Gorchov
American, 1930–2020
Gorchov worked with curved surface paintings and shaped canvases. He moved from Chicago to New York City in 1953, after having attended the University of Mississippi, Oxford; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He had his first solo show at The Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York in 1960 and he has subsequently exhibited at other institutions in New York City, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Queens Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and MoMA PS1.