David Guez

David Guez (born 1954) is an Israeli abstract painter based in Jerusalem. His work is associated with gestural abstraction and postwar traditions of Art Informel. He has exhibited internationally, including participation in collateral events of the Venice Biennale and the Mark Rothko International Painting Symposium.

Early life David Guez was born in 1954 in Tunis, Tunisia. He lived in Paris and Los Angeles before settling in Jerusalem, where he works as a painter primarily in oil on canvas.

Career

Guez primarily works in oil on canvas, producing abstract compositions characterized by gestural spatula work, thick impasto, and layered surfaces. His work emphasizes process, movement, and materiality over representational form. He is a member of the America–Israel Cultural Foundation in the visual arts category and is listed in The Painting Center’s Art File, an online database of the New York–based nonprofit gallery.

In 2022, Guez participated in Personal Structures: Reflections, an exhibition organized by the European Cultural Centre at Palazzo Bembo in Venice during the 59th Venice Biennale.

His ongoing Spiritual Landscape series explores inner terrains through abstraction, often using restrained palettes including black, gold, white, and deep blues. Solo exhibitions of this series have been held at the Fairmont Monte Carlo (2023), D&M Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (2023–2024), Art & Décoration Art Fair with JD ART Gallery, Saint-Tropez (2024), and The Hub Gallery, Neve Tzedek, Tel Aviv (2025).

In 2024, Guez exhibited in Blue Horizons: An Astral Journey into the Economy of the Future at the Naval Museum and Planetarium in Imperia, Italy. In 2025, he took part in Contemporary Landscape 2025, a group exhibition at the CICA Museum in South Korea. Later that year, he was selected for the Mark Rothko International Painting Symposium at the Rothko Museum (formerly Mark Rothko Art Center) in Daugavpils, Latvia. Paintings produced during the symposium, including Mark and Moody Blues, were added to the museum’s permanent collection.

Work and style Guez creates large-scale abstract paintings with pronounced, rhythmic marks and thick impasto, resulting in tactile, textured surfaces. His Spiritual Landscape series uses rich palettes and contrasts dense areas with lighter sections. His work follows traditions of gestural abstraction and Art Informel, prioritizing materiality and rhythm over representation.

Selected exhibitions 2022: Personal Structures: Reflections, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy 2023–2024: Spiritual Landscape (solo), D&M Art Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2024: Mirrors of the Self: Exploring Personal Identity, Galleria Cael, Milan, Italy 2024: Blue Horizons: An Astral Journey into the Economy of the Future, Naval Museum and Planetarium, Imperia, Italy