SIDNEY HURWITZ:
Riverside Impressions - Etchings of the Working Thames

Opening Friday, August 8th, 5 - 8 PM

Piscataqua Fine Arts Gallery and Printmaking Studio is proud to present an exhibition in celebration of the life's work of nationally recognized printmaker Sidney Hurwitz. Featured will be the artist's first important series of aquatint etchings, depicting the working waterfront of the Thames River, London. In addition, we will display a selection of other works which chronicle Mr. Hurwitz' career documenting the passing epic of American Industry. Please visit our gallery in Portsmouth's historic Ceres Street warehouses for this rare opportunity to preview a major retrospective of the artist's work, which will be on display at Boston University next year.
The show will run from August 8-29, 2008 and is free to the public. A reception will be held on Friday, August 8th, from 5-8 PM. The Gallery is open seven days a week from 10-6, later on weekends.

About the Thames Etchings:
In the early 1970's, Sidney Hurwitz was living in London while on sabbatical from his teaching job at Boston University. During his time in the city, Hurwitz often visited relatives in Greenwich by taking a tour boat down the Thames. From the tour boat the artist noticed the old, rapidly disappearing industrial structures that lined the river - relics of a bygone era which were quickly being demolished and redeveloped. In 1975 Hurwitz returned to London and spent 3 weeks drawing and taking photos of these structures. The result was a series of ten aquatint etchings, created over the course of 1975 and 1976.

About Mr Hurwitz:
Sidney Hurwitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1932. He studied at the School of the Worcester Art Museum, received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Brandeis University and a Master of Fine Arts degree at Boston University. Under a Fulbright Fellowship he continued his studies in Germany at the Stuttgart Academy of Art and in Maine at the Skowhegan School. He taught at Wellesley College, Brandeis University, and Amherst College. Hurwitz is Professor Emeritus at Boston University where he taught for over thirty years.

Working primarily in woodcut and later intaglio, Hurwitz has exhibited his work widely both in America and abroad. The artist received a number of awards, among them a Fulbright Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters Prize and a fellowship from the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. He is a member of the National Academy of Design.

Hurwitz's work is included in numerous public collections. Among them are the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Worcester Art Museum, Library of Congress Print Collection, the Boston Public Library Print Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Krakow National Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Many corporate and private collections also include his work.

Solo exhibitions include those in England at Oxford Gallery and Art Space Gallery. In the United States, Hurwitz soloed at the Boston Public Library, Boston; Newport Art Museum, Newport; Mary Ryan Gallery, New York; Pepper Gallery, Boston; Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C.; and University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Hurwitz has exhibited his prints in many juried exhibitions including the British Print Biennial, Krakow Print Biennial, Boston Printmakers North American, National Academy of Design, Library of Congress, Society of American Graphic Artists and Philadelphia Print Center.

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