- ARSHILE GORKY by Mario Cutajar (Manny Silverman Gallery, West Hollywood) One of the pleasures to be derived from this intimate show of Gorky drawings is to be reacquainted with the tremulous tentativeness that abstract expressionism introduced into drawing and painting in the post-World War II years. Gorky's stature as one of the key progenitors of this style is established, and clearly it was a ...artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles0297/AGorky.html