Adi Lev

Group Exhibitions:

Magen David Project, Igal Alon Culture House, Safed, 2009

The Fig ,Mear House,Rosh Pina, 2009

Eli Cohen Center ,Kfar Saba, 2010

Naive Story ,Galerina, Bat-Shlomo, 2011

Naive Artists of Israel, Gina Gellry for international naive art, Tel-Aviv, 2012

5th Fetstival of International Naive Art, Katowitc, Poland, 2012

Naive Kunst aus Israel, Gutman Art Gallery of Naive Art, Berlin, 2012

Curtaor & Co-producer of the 1th Naive Light over Jersulem International Naive Art Festival Dec, 2012

Jewish naive light., Cinimateque, Jerusalem 2012

Jewish Contemporary Light, Cinimateque, Jerusalem 2013

Adi Lev Bio

Adi Lev born in 1958. He is an Electrical & Computer Engineer, with patents on Biotech magnetic particles usage and Greentech gray water and hold application patent on security of mobile computer. He has matser degree from Tel-Aviv university on Hebrew Pen Recognition and post master degree from Paris Telecom.

He worked in an OCR company including leading the Mishmeret Stam Mezuza Verification and Hebrew/English
multi-font OCR, and the developer/architect of EnterView Marketing Analyze. He developed CAD, Robotics, CIM, Security of Computer and Telecom , Teva Phramarcy software, PABX telecommunication and Physiology software in Wingate, Belinson and TAU, Open cloud computing, Banking communication infrastructure and B2B operations. He was MDE in Sun Microsystems and consult to over 30 companies, mostly on Java and coding. He developed prototypes for over of 15 startups companies, including software and hardware.

After over 25 years, he return to painting again in the year 2008. He is a naive painting with a twist by using symbolism to express feeling in his art. Among his teachers were the artists: Helena Cohen, a naive painter, and Yoav Efrati. He is the creator and the admin of naive artists association in Israel, see: naive-art.co.il and the facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/israel.naive.art.

In 2012 he become the head of ILNART - Israel Naive Art Assiciation and with the group he bring them to follwing exhibitions: as a guest honour country with 29 Israel artists in 5th International Katovitce Naive Art festival 2012 Poland, a group exhibition of 25 Israel artists in Gina Gallery of Interbnational Naive Art , 2012 ,Tel-Aviv and 13 Israel artists in Gutam art gallry , 2012 Berlin He coproduce the 1st naive art international festival in Israel: Naive Light over Jerusalem, December 2012. with over 60 participate and from 22 countries.
About his works:

"In his painting reappears motif of relationship between pairs: man and women, father and his daughter, child and his musical instrument, using symbolic heart look alike and colors to show cross feeling between couples. In his painting, he mixes naive painting with symbolism of feeling, like a red yellow sun, snake on a tree, mysterious shrew and card symbols, hidden heart.

His paintings document his life and especially the separation from his wife and somehow from the family, letting his feeling express in art. He documents the slow process which brought him to this state. His Jewish ex-wife, who learn about Christianity, viewing with her church paintings, results in the painting divine love, but a suffering love. The belief that a separation will give new sun light for the couple. Nevertheless, this causes storm, remembering old feeling and family, which connects husband and wife hands like a rope and showing white lines in the women hair. A painting remembering being once spring lovers is now like a sweat memory dream. He documents how his children handle the family taken apart. The young boy plays in free time blues with his girlfriend human like guitar. The daughter, who found support by her boyfriend, Eden, but the snake is there and may destroy the fragile paradise...

Adi Lev is a naive painter, who lives in Israel, born 1958.

In his painting reappears motif of relationship between pairs: man and women, father and his daughter, child and his music instrument, using symbolic heart like look and colors to show cross feeling between couples.

Art Site:

Group Exhibitions:

Magen David and Birkat Hachama (blessing of the sun) ,Yigal Alon Culture House, Safed, 2009

The Fig- Hatena ,Mear House,Rosh Pina, 2009

Eli Cohen Center ,Kfar Saba, 2010


Adi Lev has Master of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering on handwritten recognition from Tel-Aviv University 1988, and a post master from Paris telecomm1992, works almost in every field of computer science, a pioneer in OCR and pen computing and co-founder of Enterview marketing analyze software and services. He worked both in successful startups as well in famous hi-tech companies like CA, Sun Microsystems and Verint. He holds a co-patent on bio magnetic for bioengineering and a pending patent in Clean-tec gray water handling.

Adi Lev returns to painting in 2008. His paintings document his life and especially the separation from his wife and somehow from the family, letting his feeling express in art. The slow process which brought him to this state. His Jewish wife who become interested in Christianity, viewing with her church painting, results in the painting divine love, but not a true non suffer love. The belief that a separation will give new sun light for the couple. Yet this causes storm, remembering old feeling and family, which connects husband and wife hands like a rope showing white lines in the women hair. A painting remembering being once a spring lovers is now like a sweat memory dream. He documents how his children handle the family taken apart. The young boy plays in free time blues with his girlfriend human like guitar. The daughter, who found support by her boyfriend, Eden, but the snake is there and may destroy the fragile paradise. He supporting his daughter but they are over a coconut boat. His biggest son is in the army. It is time of war, and he sees him rather rarely, showing the boy hugging his girlfriends. From the family only the cats seem to take it easy. Seeking a new women in his life he get support from a friend painter, ex social worker, Ellen Hasidim Rom and supporting her back, removing fear as appear in the mirror as black crow over the shoulder and empty Persian eyes and finding hidden red spirit, enjoying her true temper, and the drawing of looking apart couple, because he understand it will not become a true love. His painting of The Shrew and the women in nude shows his desire to find Eden love again.

I am using acrylic paints , sometime creating structure or background painting with structure or filling structure, using hot colors like red and purple, color of love/hate, for people and green blue surrounding. Using detailed contrasting colors with detail information influence from naive art.