Sydney Cash

Sydney Cash is a glass artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working primarily with slumped glass forms and patterned industrial glass, he creates optically kinetic works that explore light's behavior through transparency and refraction.

Sydney Cash developed a lifelong relationship with glass by exploring its translucency, transparency, reflection, and refraction. Largely self-taught, he earned his BS in mathematics from Wayne State University in 1965 before coming to New York City. In 1972, Ivan Karp first exhibited his 3-dimensional glass forms made by slumping flat glass shapes over fine wires. In the mid-1980s, Cash started experimenting with Flutex, an old industrial patterned glass that acts as a lenticular screen to make optically kinetic work. This led to a New York City MTA commission of sixteen ten-foot high optically kinetic windows for the Queensborough Plaza subway station. As a practicing Buddhist, his long-term interest in spirituality has been fundamental to his personal exploration of "Seeing."