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 (1932-2010)

Yehuda Ben-Yehuda was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1932. In the 1940's he moved with his family to Jerusalem, where his father established the first publishing house of Sephardic holy books. He attended an agriculture high school and then joined the Israeli air force as a navigator but was injured during the Sinai war and was released from service. He was accepted to Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem in the mid-fifties where he studied with Professors Yaakov Steinhardt, Yerahmiel Schechter, and Yitzhak Aschheim, among others, and excelled in drawing and painting. After graduating, he received a scholarship to study painting in Paris. Later he moved to London, where he became an integral part of a circle of international artists and studied film at the London Film School. Returning to Israel, he continued painting and designed sets for the Haifa Theater. He had two important shows at this time, one at the Haifa Museum and another at the Helena Rubenstein Museum. In 1963 he moved to New York City, where his paintings and sculptures were exhibited at the Leo Castelli and OK Harris Galleries. He returned to Tel Aviv in 1965 for four years, where he made kinetic latex sculptures, and co-owned the Yellow Submarine nightclub. His work was exhibited again at the Helena Rubenstein Museum in Tel Aviv. In 1969, he returned to New York and for the next twenty-five years divided his time between the city and Woodstock, where he practiced simple, sustainable living and designed and built several unique homes. He was a regular fixture at gallery openings, theater, museums and film events. He took part in performances with avant garde producer Robert Wilson. He had a productive period in the mid-1980s that culminated in a show in Florence, Italy at Galleria Schema under the curatorship of Alberto Moretti. In 1996, Yehuda's health was seriously compromised by a long battle with diabetes and he moved back to Israel. He was invited to live in Ein Hod, an artist community near Haifa. It was there that he went blind. But though he lost his sight, he continued to be a visionary and a philosopher. He wrote a body of fiction and even continued to paint. His work is featured in 100 Years of Art in Israel (1998), Images of Horror and Fantasy (Abrams, 1978), and other publications.
Please visit his memorial web site. 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 graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 2010 and is now studying architecture at Parson's School of Design in New York City. 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