Sidney Hurwitz

Available Works

For more than thirty years Sidney Hurwitz (b. 1932, Worcester, MA) has been primarily concerned with making images of industrial and urban architectural forms. The artist has been working mostly with etching/aquatint. More recently he has begun to add color to monochromatic etchings using watercolor washes.

Hurwitz finds the American industrial legacy to be a great source of visual material, unlimited in variety and complexity. He finds in these structures a kind of visual logic comparable to formalist sculpture. Using light, volume, texture and space the artist interprets these stuctures to emphasize what he finds so compelling.

Hurwitz’s work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and can be found in a number of important collections including The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

• Recent Exhibitions: The Built Environment, November 2007