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Truth of a Portrait at the Historic Hampton House Museum

Introduction to Yigal Ozeri + Ethan Cohen. 4:55 min. Interview: Raymond Elman. Post-Production: Lee Skye. Music: Camen Cicnero. Recorded 7/25/2025 at the Historic Hampton House Museum, Miami.

YIGAL OZERI (b. 1958) is an Israeli-born and raised photorealist painter based in New York City. Ozeri’s work has been exhibited extensively around the world in seminal galleries and museums. His works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum Of American Art, Smithsonian Museum Collection, The Mcnay Art Museum in San Antonio, The Jewish Museum in New York, The New York Public Library, The Tel Aviv Museum Of Art, and The Albertina in Vienna, The Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York, NY, Da-Da Yanko Museum, Ein Harod, Israel, among others.

— Ethan Cohen Gallery

ETHAN COHEN (b. 1961) is a collector and art dealer based in New York City who specializes in contemporary Chinese art and contemporary African art. He was one of the first western dealers to sell work by contemporary Japanese and Chinese artists including Ushio Shinohara and Ai Weiwei.

Ethan Cohen Gallery was founded in 1987 as Art Waves/Ethan Cohen in SoHo, New York City. It was the first gallery to present the Chinese Avant Garde of the 1980s to the United States. He has represented artists including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, Zhao Bandi, Wang Keping and Qiu Zhijie. Ethan Cohen Fine Arts today represents a diverse global mix of art, including contemporary American, African, Iranian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Pakistani and Thai, from emerging and established artists.

— Wikipedia

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DEVELOP A VOICE: 1:58 min.

Where did you grow up, and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 5:46 min.

How did your father support your evolution as an artist?

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 5:27 min.

Where did you grow up and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 6:31 min.

Tell us how this 2025 exhibition of Yigal’s portraits at the Historic Hampton House Museum came to be.

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 0:59 sec.

Ethan. What attracted you to this particular series of Yigal’s work?

COMMUNITY VALUES: 1:29 min.

What are some of your thoughts about the Historic Hampton House Museum?

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 2:56 min.

What impact do you want these portraits to have on the viewers?

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 5:43 min.

You spent a lot of your life in the Outer Cape Cod art colony — Provincetown, Truro, and Wellfleet. How did that impact you?

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS: 1:54 min.

Another Truro seasonal resident with a rigorous work routine was E.J. Kahn, Jr. — Jack Kahn — who wrote more words for The New Yorker magazine than anyone..

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 1:50 min