Magzoid Magazine - Luxury Magazine in the Creative Space | April 2023

Exploring the world
through art: The
inspirational journey of
Israeli artist Omer Udvin
“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. When
words fail, art speaks,” says Omer
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Omer Udvin, born in 1999, is a young
Israeli artist diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder. For him, painting
is a meaningful window to the world,
allowing him to express himself in ways he is
ordinarily unable to. Art is the twist in Omer’s
endless journey of coping with autism. As a
young boy, Omer objected even to holding
a pen in his hand. Suddenly at the age of 8,
he began to secretly draw just for himself to
see. Only when he felt more confident with
himself did he start sharing his artwork with
his immediate family.
His extraordinary drawing abilities were
discovered only at the age of 17, and since
then, despite his young age, he has developed
a unique artistic style of his own and a personal
artistic imprint. His paintings are characterized
by their abstraction, daring bold color palettes,
and a naive-optimistic perception and view of
our world. Omer’s artistic work is influenced by
expressionist modern artists such as Amedeo
Modigliani, Egon Schiele, Pablo Picasso, Vincent
Van Gogh, and more. Correspondingly, Omer is
inspired by his great fondness for old cartoons
and animation.
Omer works with various techniques, mainly
acrylic paints on canvas, watercolors, and
mixed media using fabrics. “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 by great difficulty and anxiety,
but when I paint, making choices becomes
easier,” Omer says. “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 makes
me feel safe, calm, and in control.”
Despite his young age, Omer has already
exhibited his paintings in many exhibitions,
including “Chabba” Art Gallery in Herzlia-2017,
the International Exhibition for Naïve Art in Haifa
2018, the Israeli Art Exhibition- 2018 of Bank
Hapoalim, a two-artist exhibition at Lemon-
Frame Gallery- 2018, a well-known gallery in
Tel Aviv with great success and full spread
recognition, an exhibition at the President’s
Residence held on International Autism Day
2019, and his paintings were also selected
to be exhibited at SWISS ART-EXPO 2019
as part of the ARTBOX GALLERY PROJECT.
In 2020, Omer was awarded the “Artist of
the Future Award” by the Contemporary Art
Curator Magazine. He also participated in the
“FRESHPAINT ART FAIR” in Tel Aviv in October
2021. Omer’s artworks are regularly showcased
at Lemon-Frame Gallery and are sold in Israel
and around the world.
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