Ilan Averbuch was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1953. He received a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York and an M.F.A. from Hunter College, New York. He continues to live and works in New York.

His sculptures have a quality that is both monumental and playful – monumental due to their often massive scale and his use of heavy materials like stone, lead and wooden beams, and playful because of the absolutely unexpected things he does with them.

Never your typical statues in the plaza, Averbuch’s elegant sculptures balance and buckle, curve and coil, teeter or hang suspended – qualities more typical of modern dancers than of tons of granite, and not often found in massive sculptures. His smaller works and drawings likewise test the limits of gravity, weight and space.

Since the early 1980s, Averbuch’s work has been exhibited regularly in the United States, Europe, Israel, India and Canada. He is represented in numerous public collections, among them The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Brock University, Ontario, Canada; Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Kunstlerhaus, Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; Prudential Insurance Company of America; Newark, New Jersey; Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, California; Tefen Museum, Israel; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Tel Hai Art Center, Israel; Tel Noff Sculpture Garden, Israel. Diane Farris Gallery is very excited to welcome this prominent artist.