DAN GORSKI​ : ​ARTIST’S STATEMENT 

Edited and introduced by Saul Ostrow

“I walk a thin line …” 

Dan Gorski after his undergraduate education took to making abstract paintings based mainly on formal problems. Over the course of his career his prevailing interest was in the relationship between color, pictorial space, and structure. In the mid-sixties, self-reflectively he wrote “I would always change again and again, realizing that the change was an obligation to myself.” In the same tone, years, later he would write  “I realize now that I walk a thin line between decoration and painting, but I feel that this is  a virtue for me - it is up to me to find out where it will lead, and this I find exciting. If a painter is really convinced that what he is doing is right, then it will certainly be reflected in his work. This I feel is an important fact, it is not for anyone as easy as it may seem.”