The Ever Curious Man
June 17th – August 28th, 2026Exhibitions
Opening Reception June 16, from 6-8 PM.
The Ever Curious Man presents an overview of the artistic explorations of Sydney Cash across his six-decade career.
Born in 1941 in Detroit, Michigan, Cash has worked with a variety of media and techniques, including glass, mirrors, found objects, and steel wire, as well as painting and portraiture. Best known for employing glass, his dynamic vision and irreverent perspectives, coupled with a deep understanding of materials, has led to fresh bodies of work with continuous regularity. Though his art is materially based, Cash’s goal, as noted by artist & art writer Carl van Brunt, “is to produce art that carries meaning beyond its material presence to reveal a glimpse of transcendence."
About the Artist:
Sydney Cash’s work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Corning Museum of Glass, New York; the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France. He has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, the Felissimo Design Award, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Sydney Cash is the subject of an upcoming feature-length documentary Sydney Cash Makes Too Much Art by his son award winning film maker Ivan Cash.
About the Curator:
Douglas Heller has organized hundreds of exhibitions including the landmark shows Glass America 1978 at Lever House in NYC, Glass Japan the earliest significant showing of Japanese Studio Glass in the US, and Prague Glass Prize, the first major exhibition of Czech Studio Glass after the 1989 Velvet Revolution, premiered in the new Czech Republic and then exhibited in NYC.
Heller has guest curated for museums and juried for State Arts Councils. With his brother Michael, he hosted the original meetings out of which emerged the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group, eventually leading to the founding of the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass. He was a founding board member of the Creative Glass Center of America and was later recognized by the CGCA with their Millville Rose Award for service to the field of Studio Glass. In 2003 he was cited by the Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass for outstanding accomplishment in the field of contemporary glass art. Heller is a former Vice President of the Associates of the American Craft Museum which honored him with a Visionaries! Award in 1999. In 2013 he chaired the jury of the Stanislav Libensky Award exhibition in Prague, Czech Republic. Currently Heller is a member of the Ennion Society and a Fellow of The Corning Museum of Glass, where he has acted as a juror for the New Glass Review.
