JOAN GOLDIN is a painter and photographer based in Chicago, IL. A medical artist graduating from the University of Illinois, Medical School, Chicago she earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA from Bard College, NY, along with a Phd ABD in Philosophy from European Graduate School, Switzerland. With a sharp eye and pencil, she translated complicated surgical procedures into clarifying images; those illustrations have been used in numerous medical publications, including Atlas of Advanced Surgical Techniques. With matching precision and persistence, she came to create many other kinds of images within various worlds of thinking and feeling. Her work has been presented, both solo and group exhibits, in galleries and museums, most recently at boundary, Chicago and in New York, at the Parrish Art Museum.

Ofill Echevarría Ofill Echevarría was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1972 and made his debut as a member of the Arte Calle (Street Art) Group in 1988, before graduating from the legendary San Alejandro Academy, in 1991. The following year he moved to Mexico where he lived until 2002. He currently lives and works in New York.

Since his first solo show in Havana, Plastic Industry (1991), Ofill has exhibited individually in that city and in galleries and institutions of Mexico and the Caribbean, and in Lima, Peru. He has exhibited in the Feinstein Providence Campus of The University of Rhode Island, as well as he exhibited ten years ago at the Multicultural Center of the URI based in Kingston, RI. USA.

Represented by the renowned gallery Praxis Mexico, which later became Ginocchio Gallery, both in Mexico City, Ofill has participated in many international exhibitions since 2001, among which are: Art Chicago, Art Miami, Arteamérica, Artbo , Maco Mexico, Monterrey Zona Maco, Scope Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, New York Pinta. 

His works are part of major public and private collections, among which are: Center of Development of Visual Arts in Havana; Museum of Fine Arts in Havana; Museum of Modern Art in Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico; Center for the Arts, Pinakothek, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Merrill Lynch Foundation for the Arts, Miami, Florida; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Multicultural Center of The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. USA. 

El Mundo de los Vivos | The Real World (Un-Gyve Press) is a 124 page hand bound cloth cover hardback ISBN: 978-0-9829198-1-1

Judith Aronson received a BA in American Studies from the University of Michigan, and an MFA in Graphic Design at Yale University. Aronson began her photographic career in the 1970s, and assisted the photographer and director of the Insight Guides, Hans Hoefer. From 1975 to 1986 she worked in England as a graphic designer, and photojournalist (Sunday Telegraph Magazine). A Boston exhibition (1998), Faces, featured her portraits of writers and artists; the Isole Gallery, Boston, held a two-part colour retrospective Tactile / Mercantile in 2006. Based in Boston since 1986, Aronson heads the graphic design program at Simmons College.

MARK CHESTER has been a professional photographer since nineteen & seventy two.

He was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in New York City. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Baltimore, Brooklyn, American University Corcoran Legacy Collection Washington DC, Denver, Portland (Maine), and San Francisco museums, among others.

National museum and gallery exhibitions of his work, solo and group, include OK Harris and SoHo Photo (NYC); Camera Obscura (CO); the San Francisco Airport, and other venues. Chester is a Copley Artist of the Copley Society of Art in Boston.

His photographs also accompany his own travel articles as published by the L.A. Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor among other newspapers and special interest magazines.

His 1987 traveling exhibition and catalogue "Shanghai in Black and White" commemorated San Francisco's Sister City as part of a cultural exchange program displayed at the Fort Lauderdale, FL, Museum of Art; The Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Main Library.

Published in 2011 by Un-Gyve Press the 218 page hardcover book Twosomes features 202 plates, 101 image pairs representing forty years of photography by Mark Chester.

Marian Parry is an author, poet, illustrator and watercolour artist. Her books have been published by Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Greenwillow, Heritage Press and Limited Editions, Pharos Verlag (Switzerland) and Scholastic Books.

She has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library.

Founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University, she was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute.

The Paris Book represents Marian Parry’s affinity for the city in which she spent the first years of childhood: twenty extraordinary illustrations accompanied by her own hand-lettered prose — the story of “an odd bird” and his discovery of Paris. The Paris Book (Un-Gyve Press, Boston) limited edition of 333 signed and numbered by the artist; a hand-bound, cloth-covered book in gold-stamped box and cotton satchel with twenty carefully reproduced watercolours.  The Paris Book by Marian Parry (Un-Gyve Press, Boston) unlimited edition soft-covered book with twenty carefully reproduced watercolours.  ISBN: 978-0-9829198-5-9.

Published in two volumes, in London by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty and in New York by Harper & Brothers, William Howitt’s Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets is illustrated with engravings made by H. W. Hewet (engraver of numerous editions, publisher, and patentee of the Improved Screw-Wrench) in the New York edition. The London edition credits “The Illustrations by W. and G. Measom.”

George Samuel Measom, known for his illustrated railway guides, and his charity, collaborated with his brother, William, an engraver and a painter. 

The collected work Views of the Haunts and Homes of the British Poets, Oct. 19 1850., found by Christopher Ricks in the little bookshop in Nailsworth just a few miles from his home in Gloucestershire, contains the original mixed media/watercolour illustrations for the Howitt Haunts and Homes, presumably made by either one or both of the Measom brothers and bound for preservation in 1850, after the publication of the two Howitt volumes.

From our Un-Gyve archives, the original sequence of thirty-nine illustrations, the home or haunt and the poet being identified by hand in blue ink on the tissue leaf that precedes each illustration. These lovely vignettes are bound in a design to reflect the album of 1850 with its gilt edge pages, secured with a brass clasp. This loving series of associations opens with Geoffrey Chaucer (Tabard Inn — Southwark), and closes with Alfred Tennyson (Birthplace at Somersby). 

1850 was Tennyson’s annus mirabilis, a year to marvel at: May had seen the publication of In Memoriam, and June his wedding. In November he was to succeed William Wordsworth (who had died in April) as Queen Victoria’s Poet Laureate, bestowing and receiving many true tributes for the next forty-two years.

In this limited edition of 100 Un-Gyve reproduces in faithful facsimile this tribute to the centuries’ poets and to their spirits of place.