Semi-dimensional protrusions

My personal connection with painting is very meditative and physical, conveying aspects of an overall sense of surreal organic motion through my work. This process allows for curved lines, or smokey and twisted protrusions melting from otherwise well rendered forms. Working primarily in acrylic paint and Gouache, I use these mediums as a tool for experimentation. This process mostly involves mixing other types of paint into acrylic medium and then further accentuating these forms through the use of custom-built and shaped 3D canvases. Because my content usually deals with a combination of spiritual and surrealist imagery, I feel the need to convey a similar sort of agitation, emotion, and illusion-like sense of depth and substitution that is often present regarding these types of subjects. My artwork at its core explores using the illusion of deep pictorial space, experimenting with the hallucinatory effects of color combined with line and form to further warp and meld the contents of my paintings with their overall physical structure.

Bio

Ovadia Simha is from Cambridge Massachusetts and currently lives in Portland Maine. Ovadia studied and exhibited his work at the BIMA Arts Collaborative at Brandeis University from 2015-2016. Ovadia’s other exhibitions include the showing of a self-made short film using found media at the Chapel Hill Chauncy Hall School in 2018. Ovadia currently attends the Maine College of Art & Design where he studies Painting with an expected BFA graduation in 2024. Ovadia Simha’s artwork is deeply rooted in surrealism and spiritual imagery, a practice that seeks to render these types of subjects through the lens of unconventionally built canvases. A painter and visual artist by training, tapping into the human subconscious through the hallucination-like use of line and form is a big underlying experimental goal in terms of subject matter. When not painting or thinking about painting, Ovadia is listening to heavier music, and fixing vintage lighters.