First became interested in Dylan Hurwitz when he saw the works Hurwitz created during his time  spent painting nude at the “Boy Beach,” a section of Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown,  Massachusetts, which has long been known as a “clothing optional” spot for queer people to gather.  In this stunning rendition of a land-body scape, created during Hurwitz’s time at The Cabin LA in  October 2022, he depicts a different historic LGBTQ+ beach: Riis Park Beach in Queens, New York.  The work is reminiscent of Marsden Hartley’s in-your-face close-ups and depicts an intimate queer  beach scene in which the gaze is confronted by a disembodied pair of legs and hips donning a short  red swimsuit. In engaging with the work, one may note the absence of shame and the sense of pride  and joyousness conveyed by the defiant figure whose legs we must look between to glimpse the  landscape in the background. An essential feature of Hurwitz’s vision of queer community in Red  Swimsuit is expressed by his use of foreshortening. While a conventional or “straight" use of  foreshortening might emphasize the separation of the naked body and paths from the setting  surrounding them, here Hurwitz uses foreshortening to synthesize and frame a continuity between  body, pathway, and environment. All of which creates a sense of anticipation and excitement ⎯ only  partially concealed by an airy cloth of polite discretion. Hurwitz was recently included in shows at  Freight+Volume Gallery and Galerie Thomas Fuchs.