Lavi Perchik is a figure realist known for his intimate, sensual drawings that reveal a profound sensitivity to the human form. Raised in a strict religious environment, Perchik’s work reflects an internal tension between his spiritual upbringing and a deep, almost meditative exploration of the body.
Perchik’s drawings are characterized by a precise, meticulous approach, each line and shadow carefully rendered with a level of focus that feels almost ritualistic. With a quiet reverence for the human body, the artist’s works convey a sense of vulnerability and connection, as if each piece is an act of both reverence and defiance—a quiet rebellion against the constraints of his upbringing, and an attempt to reconcile desire and spirituality in a single, delicate gesture.
Born in 1980 in Tel-Aviv, Israel, self-taught, Perchik started drawing portraits in a realistic style in 1998. He studied sculpture and drawing with Alexander Cherkov and Yuri Matzkin at the People’s University of Tel Aviv in 2006, participated in a drawing class by Doron Livne at Bezalel in 2007, at a drawing club of Meidad Eliyahu and Maya Israel in 2012, at Julia Kay’s online group of portrait artists from 2017, and at Zoom drawing classes starting in 2020.
Paints and draws from pictures and observation using the mediums of charcoal, pastel, colored pencils and graphite.
Exhibitions
2009, 2010
Group Exhibitions – Vancouver, Canada
2014, 2016
Group Exhibitions – Emuna College, Jerusalem
2021
Group Exhibition – ZOA house, Tel Aviv