Anita Kushner Fine Art

Anita Kushner - Fine Art Paintings

About the Artist:

Anita Kushner is a painter who works in three main areas - on canvas, in watercolors and with printmaking, the emphasis mainly on woodcuts. Having had over 30 solo shows in museums and galleries in the US, Canada, Europe and in Israel, Anita Kushner is represented in public and private collections internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include the Yeshiva University Museum, NY, and the Herzliya Museum, Israel. In addition to a lifetime devoted to visual expression, Kushner also works as an art critic for various publications, the latest being The International Herald Tribune / Ha'aretz newspaper, with a column called "Profiles in Art".(1999 - 2000). Anita Kushner has been living in Israel since 1974, where she started by teaching at the University of Haifa. She is currently living at the Westbeth Artist Community in New York City.

Selected group shows include Sofia '96 Treinnal, Bulgaria, Chicago Art Institute,USA, Drawings Exhibited at the President of Israel's Residence, Jerusalem, Israel to Honor the Signing of the Israel - Egypt Peace Treaty, 1978 Phila Museum of Art Regional Drawing.

"Anita Kushner's Survival Series is an outstanding mark in the artist's longtime concern with human destiny. Whimsically, the series depicts mighty predators in a luxurious, colorful and impossible landscape. The stage seems to be a midway station between mineral and organic, calm and turbulent. Tension is everywhere, devilishly embedded in confused tectonic forms floating like a threatening electric cloud upon elastic bodies or screaming across astonishing combinations of soft + acid hues. The artist faces with courage, honesty and lucidity a dangerous challenge and comes out with a smashing testimony upon the state of the world. A consummate colorist and daring inventor of symbolic forms, Kushner moved far ahead on the narrow path between fable and report. She has created a fascinating body of work which matters to us all."

Dan Eban, Art Critic

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Bahia - Contemporary Kurdish Woman with Baby Original watercolor

Turkish Jewish Community of the Ottoman Empire with their Chief Rabbi

Original Watercolor Price; $2,300 (Not including shipping)

Behind the women is a "parochet, a religious hanging/rug and it is in the style of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire and reflects their particular use of color. The Chief Rabbi is based on actual archival material and wears the robe of his office, authentially reproduced in the printing, in terms of color and detail, as is his turban. The dresses of the women of the Jewish community are likewise authentically reproduced, created and documented.

Family Album