Moti Penn presents his art work

Moti Penn creates, teaches and works in Tel  Aviv.

He was born in 1938 in Petach Tikva in Israel, after his army service he was a kibbutz member for a time, studied in 1959-63 at the Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, and completed his studies at the London Slade School of Fine Arts.

He has held one-man exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Israel and abroad and went to Paris, Amsterdam and New York for further studies and to do creative work.

At the start of his career his work was influenced by Abstract, Surrealism and Expressionism and in the sixties by Pop-art.

In the seventies he turned to a more realistic approach and painted oil paintings based on his Collages.

In the eighties his realism evolved by the influence of conceptual art.

In the nineties,  Moti Penn reverted to working on collages, on the basis of which he did paintings in colored pencil on paper.

At the start of the new millennium, he painted large oil paintings, based on computer-processed ’Virtual Realism’’, exposed in 2002 in one man show.

During 2006-9 , he was working on large oil paintings series, in Hipper Realism style.

These oil paintings exhibited in several galleries as one man show.

From  2009, he is working with oil colors by the inspiration of his new collages.

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Moti Penn Statement
My paintings are the result of a random collection of random pieces of paper that constitute a Colag'im.
Colag'im These are used as sketches and preparatory work for my paintings.
I believe, in my creative involvement, handprint, composition, selecting objects, color and aesthetic preferences, these are the real message that I spent as an artist.
The viewer to absorb the works as they are and to interpret the works themselves according to the similarity in shape, and depth of his