Sydney Cash explores the optical nature of pattern and movement through painting, sculpture, and installation. In his works, Cash investigates philosophical and psychological questions, such as the relationship between the work and the viewer and between the work and its environment, while changing the boundaries between image and object.

Light plays a key role in his sculptures and installation. Integrating glass and mirrors, the artist manipulates light as a physical material, transforming it into complex images composed of reflections, refractions and shadows. His kinetic sculptures created in the 1980s and 1990s are constructed by overlaying ribbed industrial glass on top of paper printed with various patterns. The vibrating movement,s together with the blending of colors created by these patterns, become optically kinetic as they are revealed in relation to the viewers movement, thus making each projected experience unique to the individual.

Works by Sydney Cash have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. His works are held in the permanent collections of major art institutes such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Smithsonian Museum, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017
The Falcon, Love of Line, Portraits from the 1970s and the 2010s, Marlboro, NY

2016
Heller Gallery, Pre-Internet: Optic-Kinetic Sculpture from the 80s and 90s, NYC, NY

2015
Theo Gantz Gallery, Remastered Portraits, Beacon, NY

2014

The Falcon Jazz Club, Patterns and Portraits, Marlboro, NY

2010-2011
Butler Institute of American Art, Light Sculptures, Youngstown, Ohio

2009
Bridge Gallery, Light Sculptures, NYC, NY

2005
Van Brunt Gallery, Light and Shadow, Beacon, NY

2003
Tribeca Fine Arts, NYC, NY

1999
Compositions Gallery, San Francisco, California

1998, 1995, 1992, 1990, 1988, 1984, 1982, 1981, 1980
Heller Gallery, NYC, NY

1993, 1991
Carpe Diem Gallery, Paris, France

1992
Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju, Finland

1990, 1987
Broadway Windows, NYC, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Art Miami, Donghwa Ode Gallery, Miami, Florida
Art New York, Donghwa Ode Gallery, NYC, NY
Art on Paper, Donghwa Ode Gallery, NYC, NY

2018
Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Turbulence: Optical Abstraction, NYC, NY

2017
Ann Street Gallery, Kaleidoscope of Perspectives, Newburgh, NY

2016
Wired Gallery, Abstract Painting, High Falls, NY

2015
Pierogi Gallery, Group Show, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Valentine Gallery, Group Show, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Light & Shadow, Glas Museet Ebeltoft, Denmark

2011
Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007
Shattering Glass: New Perspectives, Katonah Museum of Art, NY

2003, 2002, 2001
Sculpture Garden, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY

2000, 1983
Glass National, Habatat Gallery, Farmington Hills, Michigan

1997
Hsinchu International Glass Art Festival, Hsinchu, Taiwan

1996
Glass in Japan, Japan

1992
Marco Museo del Arte Contemoraneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Contemporary Ark NIKI, Tokyo, Japan

1991
Le Verre: International Exposition, Rouen, France

1990
Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY. Museum of Modern Art, NY. Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY. Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.. Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL. The Butler Museum of American Art Nelson Rockefeller Collection, New York, NY. Flint Museum of Art, Flint, MI. Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. La Musee des Arts Décoratifs de la Ville de Lausanne, Switzerland. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. The Detroit Institute of State University Collection, Muncie, IN. Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania. Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY. Glas Museet Ebeltoft, Denmark. The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.