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Gitlin's work can be characterized as abstract and reductive. He began his career working three-dimensionally, first with paper and later with wood, using paper as a medium rather than a support. His sculptures are mostly wall pieces, which depend on architecture for their physical and contextual support.
In recent years, Gitlin has worked with steel wool, copper wire, foam, and black spandex. Drawing too has always been a demanding part of Gitlin's project.
Gitlin received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Sculpture (1984) and the Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture and Drawing (1987). He was awarded the prestigious Israel Museum Sandberg Prize (1989) and the Augustus St. Gaudens Memorial Fellowship (1988). Gitlin was also the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1991) and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2005).
His works are part of several collections, among them the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, the Jewish Museum, New York, the Rijksmuseum, Kroeller - Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands, the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, the Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany and many others.
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