Cash has had a diverse and experimental career, creating with flat glass, mirror, painting, pattern and portraiture. He’s explored process, material science, movement and personality.
In the mid-1970’s Cash drew over 2,000 sketches and portraits of people throughout the city of New York. His artistic identity emerged through this process.
Cash has done much experimenting with glass in the last 50 years, from melting it, to wearing it. In 1972, Ivan Karp first exhibited the 3-dimensional glass forms Cash made by slumping flat glass shapes over fine wires. Since 1979 Heller Gallery has exhibiting the different progressions of his glass work. Cash has had over 40 one-person exhibitions and been included in more than 70 group shows.
Museum collections includes:
•MoMA-NYC
•The Philadelphia Museum of Art
•Le Musee des Arts Decoritifs in Paris and Lucerne.
Commissions include:
•Museum of Modern Art – designed a group of glass optical vases
•New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority - created 16 ten foot tall optical panels for the Queensborough Plaza Subway Station.
Awards include:
•National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• New York Foundation for The Arts fellowship
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant
•NYFA’s Fillissimo Design Award.
Cash’s long-term interest in spirituality has led him to become a Buddhist practitioner, a student of the Ridwan school, and member of an Edgar Cayce study group. These interests have been fundamental to his personal exploration of “Seeing” (the intuitive basis of artistic creation).
In the Hudson Valley, Cash currently facilitates a group for older artists, focused on archiving, estate planning and what it means to dedicate one’s life to art.
