The family of Hal Hirshorn (1965 – 2025) and Ethan Cohen Gallery would like to cordially invite you to Hal Hirshorn: Surrender Everything to the Sun, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Hirshorn’s extensive oeuvre, which includes paintings, abstract washes on paper, and photography. Hirshorn’s penchant for the poetic and the elusive led to a photographic practice in which he made landscapes and portraits with 19th century lenses and photographic processes, most frequently in the form of salt prints. Hirshorn would coat his own paper and print outdoors by exposing them to the sun, ergo the title of the exhibition, which derives from a statement Hirshorn made when describing his process, he was required to “Surrender Everything to the Sun”.
