Debbie Kampel

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, living in Israel since 1974. I have always been a landscape painter. A few years ago I started noticing the trucks: the powerful Mack trucks building the new neighborhood of Har Homa and the highly decorated trucks that plied the roads of Judea. Trucks that reflected the strength of the landscape and trucks that imposed a harmony of color and shape upon it. While the trucks seem to upstage and dominate the landscape in fact the landscape contains and displays them. Painting the trucks for me represents the daily existence between Jews and Arabs expressed through an aesthetic reality - the complexities and contradictions that are a part of my life here.

Majored in Fine Art, History of Art and English at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg receiving a B.A. Completed a M.A Cum Laude at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Studied at Bezalel School of Art under painters Pinhas Cohen-Gan and Michael Kovner; lithography with Dedi Ben-Shaul. A member of the Israel Artists Association. One-Man Shows:

2010- Exhibition for International Womens' Film Festival, Artists House, Rechovot 2005 -New Gallery, Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem2002 - Yeshiva University Museum, New York - Ha-Acheret Gallery, Tel-Aviv 1999 - ICC Jerusalem Convention Center, Jerusalem - Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem.1998 - Kaye College, Beersheva. 1996 - Strong Hills, Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel-Aviv.1993 - Paintings, Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts, Jerusalem. 1990 - Views of Judean Hills, Sara Kishon Gallery, Tel-Aviv.1989 - Landscapes, Art Center, Gush Etzion.1987 - Hills of Jerusalem; Nora Gallery, Jerusalem.Selected Group Shows: 2010-Biennale Split-Mediteran, Croatia 2009 - Embracing our Differences, Florida, USA -As A Passing Shadow, Hillel 17 Gallery 2008 - Jerusalem, Surface Fractures, Artists House, Jerusalem - Olympic Fine Arts, Beijing August 2008 - Beijing Biennale July 2008 - Zichronenu Beit Cheil Avir ,Herzlia - Private Spaces, Jerusalem 2005 - Beijing Biennale, Sep 2005 2002 - Marot MiKhan -Israeli Artists, ...