Location: Israel
– Finding a Voice Through Color
Omer Udvin (born 1999) creates from an inner calm from which
a vibrant storm is born. His life has been shaped by dealing with a complex
media and social world, but precisely through this challenge, he has formed a
personal, rich, and precise artistic language. His paintings are built from
layers of dots, lines, and geometric shapes—a stubborn and unique visual
language that returns control to his hands.
Whether these are figures wearing colorful hats, fantastical
urban landscapes, or bright flowers against a black background — there is
always a sense of dialogue in Omer's work between naive imagination and
deliberate structure. The graphic arrangement, repetition of patterns and
symbols, and bold use of color create a language reminiscent of a tradition of
pointillism, yet translated into a contemporary digital age, almost punk-like.
His works aim to offer the viewer a dual experience: from a
distance — a colorful and alluring carpet; up close — a complex system of
details, dots, and textures. The encounter between micro and macro embodies how
the artist mediates his inner world to the viewer — from concealment to
revelation, from particular to universal.
For Omer, art is not just aesthetics — it is a means of
communication, a bridge to the world, and a way of belonging. It carries a
message of joy, compassion, and self-acceptance, and offers to see beauty
precisely in the different and the other.
His works are visual poetry — full of innocence, precision,
and imagination — reclaiming art’s role as a healing and connecting force.
Artist Statement: As an artist diagnosed on the autistic spectrum, art is my primary way to express myself and the way I experience life. To me, Colors, paint, and brushes are the keys to share my feelings and give others access to my inner world.
My work process always faces me with one of the things that have always been extremely difficult for me: making choices. For me, making choices is accompanied with great difficulty and anxiety but when I paint, making choices becomes easier.
The first choice I must make is the subject of the painting. It must be something that I genuinely love, feel connected to or something that has deeply impressed me and remained in my memory. I usually draw inspiration from favorite film characters and other artists' works, paint them from my mind, and create my interpretation.
The second choice in my work process is choosing the color palette, a decision expressing my state of mind.
After I paint the first layer of the painting, I paint all the details in my signature' dots and stripes' technique. Most of my works are composed of dots (influenced by "Pointillism") and stripes, which requires a lot of precision and patience, but also make me feel safe, calm, and in control.
For me, art is the main way I manage to feel as equal, be proud of myself, and share my inner world, a world rich of bright colors, images and endless details
CANVAS ON ACRILIC 160/100CM
“Dreamy landscape”
