Anat Litwin

Catalog #6

Anat Litwin

Popsicle Position (Skin Series)
2009

19 x 19 inch
Paper and artificial skins
About the Artwork: This piece is part of the Popsicle Position series. It indicates a primal aspect of human behavior within a twilight zone that is both naïve, sensual, manipulative and aggressive.  The series explores the correspondence with the "other", the attempt to define the boundaries of self and lose them, and the discovery of both beauty and danger that lies within these raw ambiguous situations.  Education of youth often has a critical role in the process of sublimation of rage and desire into cultural and social codes. Art often deals in contrary with the undoing. The Elem Benefit is situated within this axis as a way to bridge these two worlds, and therefore I found the donation of this piece relevant.
 About the Artist: Anat Litwin is an Israeli American Artist and Curator based in Brooklyn, working in the medium of paper cut-out's, drawings, installation and public art. Litwin received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from Hunter College in NY, Department of Combined Media. She received the Keren Sharet award for outstanding artists in 2001, and has exhibited her work in Italy, Albania, Israel and New York. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the HomeBase Project. www.homebaseproject.com  and senior LABA artist and Consultant at the 14th Street Y. She is currently focusing on her  first book of stories and paper cut out's titled "ANATOMY". more news can be found on her website www.anatlitwin.com
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