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① Artwork:
dune opening (Boy Beach)
For this collection of paintings, Hurwitz has returned to observational and plein-air painting as a way to celebrate many queer and other public gathering spaces he has frequented. This body of work was born out of the artist's time spent at two locations: Boy Beach in Provincetown, MA, where he has attended a residency each of the past four summers, and Jacob Riis Beach in New York City, a beach he bikes to regularly during summers. In the series, he works with scale shifts that further dissolve distinctions between humans and landscapes while raising questions about legibility and visibility.
Dylan Hurwitz creates paintings that oscillate between landscape, figure, and abstraction. His open-ended depictions of dunes and people at the gay beaches he frequents blur distinctions between human form and landscape, pushing them ever closer to pure abstraction.
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③ Artist:
By working from observation at traditionally gay beaches, Dylan Hurwitz creates paintings that oscillate between landscape, figure, and abstraction. For Hurwitz, the relative remoteness of these beaches is integral to how they function as queer gathering spaces, inspiring him to create his open-ended depictions of the land and people via empty dunes and close-up views, respectively. He even crops his compositions in ways that combine the human form with a landscape while pushing them close to pure abstraction. As such, segments of figures transform into undulating dunes, with body hairs resembling grass, creating a fluid interchange of references.
Dylan Hurwitz was born in 1989 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI (2019) and his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University in Medford, MA (2013).
Hurwitz has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at The Cabin LA in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Freight+Volume in New York City, NY (2022); and Auxier Kline in New York City, NY (2021).
He has participated in group shows such as Beach at Nino Mier in New York City, NY (2023); First Impressions at Room57 in New York City, NY (2023); Sense of Place at Space Ten in Los Angeles, CA (2023); Intimacy at Galerie Fuchs in Stuttgart, Germany (2023); It’s a Queer World at the Leslie-Lohman Project Space in New York City, NY (2022); and Call It Winter at the National Arts Club in New York City, NY (2021); among others.
