1.Cristina Ochagavia images 1, 3 & 8

2.Raphael Ben-Yehuda

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Raphael Ben-Yehuda is an artist living in New York City. He studied painting at Bard College and earned his M.F.A. at Yale School of Art. In 1990 he founded Water Street Studios, a gallery in lower Manhattan with Lowell Boyers. He has participated in artist residencies such as The Millay Colony in Chatham, NY and The Julia and David White Colony in Costa Rica. His work has been shown in Buenos Aires and Bolivia as well as 313 Gallery, OK Harris Gallery, and numerous alternative venues in New York City. In 1993, Raphael was a recipient of The FIAR International Prize, curated by Dan Cameron. He built a vintage style lobster fishing boat and spends much of his time, when not painting, sailing with his wife Jacqueline Thaw.images 4&6

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1997 Transport - Halfway House, NYC
1995 From A to B -Atelier 31, Berlin, Germany
1993 Chelsea Vaudeville - Acme Gallery, NYC
1992 Detour, International House, NYC
American Art Since 1992 - 313 Gallery, NYC
1991 The FIAR International Prize - Milan, Rome, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, curated by Dan Cameron
Hacia un Nuevo Romanticisimo - CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Centennial Invitational Biannual - OK Harris Gallery, NYC
The Aesthetics of Interference - Water Street Studios, NYC
1990 M.F.A. Exhibition- New Haven, CT
1988, 1989 Yale Art Gallery - New Haven, CT
1988 Another 75 Seconds - Maya's Room, New Haven, CT
Construccion-de-Construccion- Casa de la Cultura, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
When your art is as good as this...- Procter Art Center, Annandale, NY
Eight Upstate Sculptors - Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, curated by Hans Van de Bovenkamp
1985, 1986 Bard College Independent Students Show - Annandale, NY

3. Carlos Ochagavia (1913-2006)

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A native of Logrono, Spain, Carlos Ochagavia received his training in painting at the Escuala Superior de Bellas Artes and the Academia de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires. In 2006 he was awarded the GALARDON D'ART by the Government of Spain and a street was named after him in Logrono where a retrospective of his work was staged. In 1991 he created for the United Nations Post Office. three sets of four stamps for the Better Environment program. He was awarded a scholarship for studies at the Art Student's League, New York in 1937, and subsequently illustrated covers for Time, Newsweek, literary publications, collateral materials for New York Univeristy, ad campaigns for numerous companies, and illustrations for a limited edition of books. An accomplished film maker, he was awarded First Prize at the French National Short Animated Film Festival, in 1962. The painter's interest in lush nature, expressed with influences of Spanish Cubist and Surrealist culture, can be seen in the impressive collection of his work; this aesthetic has received further international exposure with the three sets of postage stamps he produced for the United Nations Better Environment Program in 1991. As a muralist, Ochagavia created large wall paintings for the State Cinematography Institute and the Argentine Industrial Union. He has also illustrated limited editions of fine art books. Ochagavia has exhibited in the US and Europe, and his works are held in private collections in Argentina, Europe and the United States, as well as the Museo del Grabado and the Museo de Bellas Artes, in Buenos Aires. At the age of 90, he returned to Buenos Aires where he continued to paint and explore the world of art until his death in November 2006.
More of Carlos's art here images 2, 9, 10 & 11

Exhibitions:

2001: Sono Gallery, Norwalk, Connecticut* 1998: Salon de Noel, Waremme, Belgium* 1998: R. Thomas Gallery, Winter Park, Florida* 1997: Galerie RR., Paris, France* 1997: Keuninck Gallery, Grand-Rechain, Belgium* 1996: National Arts Club, New York* 1986: River Gallery, Westport, Connecticut* 1979: Group 32, Buenos Aires* 1964: Van Riel Gallery, Buenos Aires* 1963: Galeria Plastica, Buenos Aires* 1962: Galeria Rubio, Buenos Aires

PRIZES:

1stprize: Sociedad de Acuarelistas y Grabadores* 1st prize: Salon Nacional de Bellas Artes* Grand Prize: Salon Nacional de Bellas Artes* Award: Union Industrial Argentina* Award: Grace Line, New York

4.Yehuda Ben-Yehuda

Yehuda Ben-Yehuda lives in Ein Hod, an artists commune near Haifa, Israel. While he has lost his sight due to diabetes, he continues to be a visionary, a philospher and a rabble rouser. Yehuda was born in Bagdhad sometime in the 1930s to a family of sock makers and traders. When the Iraqi regime pressured Jews to leave the country, he and his parents and three elder sisters moved to Tel Aviv. He began working in theater during high school and ran with a circle of artists, musicians and thinkers. He married a lovely lady named Ayala and moved to London where he studied at the London Film School. Here his first daughter Donna was born. Story to continue soon... image 5

5. Donna Ben-Yehuda

Bio for Donna Ben-Yehuda coming soon.image 13

6. Elliott Jones

Elliott Jones was born in Greenwhich Connecticut to Ursual Northrup and Louis Cleveland Jones, inventor of famed toxic M&M accident Red Dye #2. Elliott was a rifleman, a playboy, an Olympian, a photographer a lover of jazz and a ladies man. He took his camera on his adventures and captured rare footage of the 1934 German Olympics, the dawn of Las Vegas, his rarified upbringing, his nightclubbing and his twilight years in the strage little silvermining town of Virginia City, Nevada. Known to all as Mr. Jonesy, Elliott died in 1997 and was last person allowed to be buried in the historic graveyard there. More on Mr. Jonesy and a collection of his photography coming soon...

7. Yoseff Ben-Yehuda graduated from the Buxton School in Massachusetts in 2006. He is now majoring in mathematics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He made his first film at the age of three, a searing documentary of bohemian family life.

8. Noa Jones

Noa Jones was often disciplined for wounding the egos of her teachers whose caricatures she rendered in the margins of spiral notebooks throughout her school days. These days she paints with words. images 7 &12