Guli Levy (טקסט בעברית בהמשך)

Painter, Jewelry Designer & community coordinator

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Hi, I am Guli Levy (b. 1975), a self-taught multidisciplinary artist, painter and jewelry designer, living and creating in Tel Aviv, married and a mother of three - my best creations.

Through 2 different fields of art, I explore the main issues that concern my everyday life.

As a Portrait Painter

every piece brings me together with the eternal subject of Self-Acceptance. Alongside my human obsession with external approval, I know that outer circumstances have no sole responsibility for my state of mind. I am painting from Darkness to Light, using a "reverse drawing technique". I start with a dark surface of paint and then wipe it off to reveal the figure from the bright background. no pre-sketching. Beneath layers of fears and limiting beliefs, lies our precious authentic self, waiting to be exposed. It's an ongoing process. There'll always be something to peel. Once the paint start to dry out and can't be easily removed anymore, the work comes to an end. It's ok just the way it is. It's enough. I am enough.

As a Crystal Jewelry designer

I investigate our need as individuals to belong to a community and to be a significant and valuable part of a group. In my jewelries I combine side by side, various materials that form a harmonic vibrating circle. The more we learn to accept ourselves as we are, the more we will find our place within the group.

The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts.

My Story

No matter how much we suppress our passion, it will eventually burst out of us.

My affinity to painting ever since I was a child and the fact that I graduated an Art High School made it very clear that I should take the artistic life path, but upon my release from the army I chose to, immediately, start working. As the daughter of new immigrants who worked hard for a living, financial independence was first priority.

For many years I worked as an assistant to senior executives alongside nurturing my home and family. Art has become mostly a hobby that has been pushed aside during the daily routine.

In 2018, after about two decades in the same organization, I couldn't hold back my desire to go back painting anymore. I knew, that being a mother of three small kids that holds a full time job out - will never leave me time for painting. And so, With the support of my beloved spouse, my family and my employers, I left my safe job and embarked on a new path of being a Full time Artist. I came back to my power basis as a child, to express my most authentic voice.

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Today

I hold art workshops for groups and individuals and teach my unique painting technique. I create energetic crystal jewelry that adjusted according to physical, mental and emotional needs in order to support healing processes and I continue to create in my home studio. Alongside my artistic work, I work as a community and events coordinator at the Hadar Afka community center in Tel Aviv. community and art are the pillars of my daily essence.

Exhibitions

In May 2019, I held my first solo show in a spacious hangar in the Jaffa port, in which I presented about 40 works, which concluded a fruitful and extraordinary year of creation, and in July 2019, I presented some of my works in the local bar "The Box" in Neot Afeka, TLV.
 

On Thursday, May 11, 2023, there will be an opening of a joint exhibition of me and my spouse, the photographer and landscape architect - Avi Levy, ther we will present our creative, jointly and separately - journey, in a collection of photographs, paintings and jewelry.
"Abandoned Treasures" - 11-20.5.2023
Gallery at 5 Mazal Dagim St., Old Jaffa
Opening Hours:
Sun-Thursday: 20:00-16:00
and: 10:00-16:00 | Q: 20:00-10:00
Closing: Saturday, May 20, 2023, 8:00 p.m. The exhibition

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Sitting in front of the dark patch of fresh paint, I don't know how the outcome will look like but I know I am moving towards a fascinating process of peeling off more and more things that do not serve me anymore - facing a new discovery.

My aspiration as an artist is for the viewer to visualize the process of wiping as if he himself is separated from his own fears and showing his unique inner treasure.