Dina Recanati
artist biography
Dina Recanati was born in Cairo, and grew up in Egypt. She traveled to England where she studied art and history, and then moved on to the Art Students League in New York. Presently she lives in New York and Israel. Her work can be seen at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum, Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv University, The Jewish Museum, New York, the Herziliya Museum, Weisman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel and in many other public places and private collections.
Recanati’s images emerge from experience and memory, both personal and collective, as an homage to ancient cultures, to earth and time. While her art is often a combination of painting and the sculptural, the three-dimensional is conditioned by prevailing esthetics. It is never solely about formal issues and strategies but always rooted in metaphor.
