Biografia
Martin H. Israel was a high school math teacher who turned antiques dealer in mid-career. He organized and taught one of the very first high school computer programming courses back in the early 60's, when computers still had vacuum tubes. As an antiques dealer, he specialized in Japanese decorative arts.
His favorite modern artists include M.C. Escher, Kasimir Malevitch, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand Leger, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Chuck Close, who have all influenced him, or, at the very least, informed his sensibilities. Nowadays, he makes art exclusively by means of computer, which enables and blends perfectly with his abilities, sensibilities and proclivities.
He is married, with one daughter and three stepsons.
