[1][2] Averbuch creates large-scale monumental artworks and installations for gallery and museum exhibitions in addition to outdoor public spaces.
From 1976–1977 Averbuch traveled to North and South American living between the Cordilleras and the Amazon region, a formative trip that solidified his intention to become an artist.
Averbuch intermittently travels back to Israel in the mid 1980s to install his first official public project for the city of Tel Aviv.
[5] Over the course of the next thirty years, the artist continues to travel, exhibit, and produce public art commissions internationally in New York, Germany, France, Switzerland, Canada, and India, among others.
[6] His work appears across the globe in India, Israel, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and throughout the United States.
[3] Among recurring themes in his work are civilization and its history, growth, transformation, the inevitable passage of time, dreams and memory, the relationship between text and image, and the conflict between our aspirations and our limitations.
[3] Averbuch’s imagination circles back on itself, recycling imagery and transforming reoccurring symbols creating endless paths of interpretation.
[7] A recent work, Tappan Zee (2020) depicts a row of seven abstract steel figures carrying a stone canoe.
The sculpture pays tribute to the indigenous Native American Lenape tribe and their history along the Hudson River.
[4] In the 1990s, Lutz Teutloff, a German philanthropist and art collector purchased Averbuch’s work and donated it to the Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
The work speaks of broken dreams and continually lost possibilities installed amidst Galilee, Israel in an area of difficult and interminable conflicts of the modern world.
A wooden structure representing the skeleton of an old boat bursts from the house, in which the artist has created from wood culled from the surrounding forest.
[7] Following Averbuch's 1997 exhibition the Open Museum Tefen purchases and keeps on display three sculptures Grapes and Other Promises, Deux ex Machina, and The River.
[15] An exhibition at the Open Museum in Omer from 2013–2015 brought together a selection of outdoor sculptures previously displayed in various sites around the globe.
The stones were raised off the ground, creating a field of seemingly floating round platforms reminding us of large lily pads on the surface of a pond.