WASHINGTON – Ivanka Trump responded Tuesday to the news of a new art exhibit that features a model posing as her.

"Ivanka Vacuuming" by artist Jennifer Rubell features a woman resembling Ivanka Trump pushing a vacuum across a plush, pink carpet. Nearby sits a pedestal piled with crumbs.

"The public is invited to throw crumbs onto the carpet, watching as Ivanka elegantly vacuums up the mess, her smile never wavering," explains a press release from CulturalDC, the organization behind the exhibit.

"Women can choose to knock each other down or build each other up. I choose the latter," Ivanka Trump said in a tweet linking to an article about the art installation.

Her younger brother, Eric Trump, attacked the art exhibit as "nonsense" and "craziness" during an interview on "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday. And he chided "leftists" for their "hypocrisy" in mocking "a powerful woman who has done more for women than probably anybody in Washington, D.C."

"They label themselves as a party of women, yet they are throwing food, they are throwing garbage, at a woman on a carpet holding a vacuum cleaner to mimic somebody who really does care, and has fought so hard for women," Eric Trump said.

He added: "You know what guys, I say keep doing it. Keep going because they are losing people with this nonsense, with this craziness."

According to CulturalDC, the work was inspired by Ivanka Trump as "a figure whose public persona incorporates an almost comically wide range of feminine identities – daughter, wife, mother, sister, model, working woman, blonde."

The work is "simultaneously a visual celebration of a contemporary feminine icon; a portrait of our own relationship to that figure; and a questioning of our complicity in her role-playing," the non-profit group explains.

CulturalDC's Executive Director Kristi Maiselman also said the interactive piece presents "a nice contrast to the town’s 'please-do-not-touch' mainstay museums."

Rubell confessed that part of the work's appeal is the pleasure patrons get from tossing the crumbs for the model to vacuum up.

"Here is what’s complicated: We enjoy throwing the crumbs for Ivanka to vacuum. That is the icky truth at the center of the work. It’s funny, it’s pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more," Rubell said.

The impulse to create a scene that the audience can participate in may run in Rubell's family. Her uncle was Steve Rubell, the flamboyant co-owner of New York's famously hedonistic disco club, Studio 54.

The CulturalDC project will be exhibited at the former Flashpoint Gallery in Washington from Feb. 1 to Feb. 17. Admission is free.

Contributing: Maria Puente