Key Works

Sorel Etrog is known primarily as a sculptor, but he was a polymath who created, among other works, mixed media, drawings, paintings, performance art, text-based work, and a film. The following selection speaks to his achievements in various media, as well as to the artist’s main styles and periods. It also reveals recurring themes and motifs in Etrog’s oeuvre, such as his exploration of the human condition through the articulation of tensions between the organic and the mechanical and between stillness and movement, and the celebration of life and contemplation of death.