AVRI OHANA Paintings from the Biomorphic Series

Avri Ohana is a multi style painter. His Biomorphic paintings are central to his art, and it is through that style that he honed his special technique and voice as a unique artist.

As a young man, Ohana was influenced by the painter Erik Brauer, co- founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, whom he met in Ein Hod, the artist village of Israel.

“In my Biomorphic paintings I am trying to create an imaginative world. I engage with my curiosity relating to nature, and forms that cannot be seen by the naked eye. I thus connect with aspects of the unknown world that exist somewhere there – whether in the cosmos, the depth of the sea, the air we breathe or the cellular and microscopic structures of the human body”.

Avri Ohana was born in Casablanca, Morocco and immigrated to Israel at the age of 13. As a young man, he was an early member of Ein Hod, Israel’s first Artist Village at the foot of Mount Carmel. It was there that he developed his unique voice as an artist. Since then, he has traveled and worked extensively in Europe, Latin America and the United States, where he is a citizen. Ohana’s work reveals a restless temperament that is both in love with nature but also in constant pursuit of perfect abstraction.

Ohana’s exhibitions include solo and group shows in Israel, Europe and the
United States.,

“Ohana’s works are a playland of old with new, the primitive with the sophisticated, the ordinary with the fantastic.”
– Gerrit Henry, critic for Art in America

Contact Info:
Website: www.avriohana.com
Email: avriohana@gmail.com
Tel: 212-691-1568