Exhibition:

Ben Simon was born in New York and moved to Israel with his paint brushes twenty years ago. He paints when he can in his home studio in a room separate from his wife and two children. He stopped using odorous thinners at home, which is partly responsible for the lumpy textures in his paintings.
Simon studied studio art at a number of academies and universities in the USA until finally graduating from Columbia University in 1999. It was important for him to get a broad influence from his education. Abstract Expressionists and the academic study of the figure were two great influences that led to Simon's current interest in expressive figurative painting.