Guggenheim Fellow, recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Yaddo and Edward Albee Fellow, Michael David has been exhibiting internationally since 1981, first with the historical Sidney Janis and then with M. Knoedler & Co. and is currently represented by Johnson & Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, GA, where he had his most recent one person exhibition in 2022, The Mirror Stage.

His work is included in many prominent private collections and the permanent public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, The Brooklyn Museum, The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Margulies Collection in Miami and the Edward Albee Foundation in Montauk NY, and was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Aspen Museum of Art.

Over the last decade, David established the Yellow Chair Salon and has founded, directed and curated two of the most successful galleries in Brooklyn: Life On Mars and M. David & Co.

Astrid Dick is a painter born (1972) and raised in Buenos Aires and currently living and working in Paris. She began to paint intensively on her own at 13, and later, excited by mathematics and social frictions, begins her studies in economics in Buenos Aires, while continuing to draw in her free time. In 2002, she is awarded a Ph.D. in economics from MIT. After a life as an art double-agent, at age 36 she abandoned her life as university professor to to devote herself entirely to art. She has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, was artist-in-residence at the Leipzig Spinnerei, and has shown her work through solo and group shows in Europe, the US and Argentina, such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland. Most recently, she had shows at MDavid & Co. Gallery and at Below Grand Gallery in New York, and at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, and her work was reviewed by John Yau in Hyperallergic. She has taught undergraduate and graduate university courses at INSEAD in France, where she was tenure-track faculty, as well as New York University and Columbia University.

Cited by critics as the pioneer of installation-art, this oft-cited label for the sprawling career of Judy Pfaff provides an introductory sense of Pfaff’s legacy, but proves limiting to the ever-changing work she has been making for decades and still today. Born in London in 1946, Pfaff received a BFA from Washington University Saint Louis (1971), and an MFA from Yale University (1973) where she studied with Al Held.

She exhibited work in the Whitney Biennials of 1975, 1981, and 1987, and represented the United States in the 1998 Sao Paulo Bienal. Her pieces reside in the permanent collections of MOMA, Whitney Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Detroit Institute of Arts, among others. She is the recipient of many awards including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center (2014), the MacArthur Foundation Award (2004), and the Guggenhiem Fellowship (1983). Pfaff lives and works in Tivoli, New York.

Jennifer Samet is a New York City-based art historian, curator, and writer. She completed her BA at Barnard College and her PHD at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her major areas of interest include post WWII and contemporary painting. Samet was formerly co-director of Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects and is currently the director of research at Eric Firestone Gallery. Samet is the author of the column “Beer with a Painter,” in Hyperallergic Weekend Edition. She is published extensively on contemporary and post war painting in MASTER DRAWINGS, ARTNET, Art Critical, New York Sun, and numerous exhibition catalogs.

Jennifer Samet has taught Art History at the City University of NY and is currently a teaching faculty member at the NY Studio School. She has curated major historical exhibitions on the Jane Street Gallery and the history of the NY Studio School and thematic exhibitions “Rough Cut” (at Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC), “Dark Matters”, and “Repetitive Motion”. Her latest curatorial effort is In 2023, Samet co-currated with Andrea Belag the Feminine in Abstract Painting at The Milton Resnik and Pat Passlof Foundation.

Kyle Staver (Virginia, MN, lives and works in NYC) earned her BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1976 and her MFA from Yale University in 1987. In 2015, she was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She is a member of the National Academy of Design. She has had 2 solo exhibitions at Zürcher Gallery in New York (2018 and 2020) and in 2019, had a solo exhibition at Galerie RX (Paris) curated by Gwenolee Zürcher. In 2020, Zürcher Gallery participated in the Armory Show for the first time with a duo-presentation of Staver and Matt Bollinger in the Focus Section, curated by Jamillah James. Her most recent one person exhibitions include: Moskowitz Bayse, LA (2022), Half Gallery, NY (2022), Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels (2023) Kyle Staver and June Leaf at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Project NY (2023). Her work is in the collections of the National Academy of Design (New York), The American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York), The National Arts Club (New York) and The McEvoy Foundation (San Francisco).

Fox Hysen was born in the Bay Area, California and currently lives and works in Norfolk, Connecticut. She is full-time faculty at the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting, the graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.

Her work explores the relationship between composition and bodily perception: Between the conventions of depth and space in landscape painting, the linearity and speed of hand writing and the woven-ness of painterly supports. Her direct, gestural mark-making produces different types of painterly objects. The casual materiality of these objects are experienced in tension with their organization into composed spaces.

Awards include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022 and the Tournesol Award at the Headland’s Center for the Arts in 2016. She earned her MFA from Yale University (2015) and BFA from NYU (2006). Solo exhibitions include Below Grand and Soloway gallery in New York, Gallery 16 in San Francisco and the Suburban in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung is a painter, writer and teacher. She attended the Evergreen State College in the 1990s and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her graduate degree.

She was a full time senior critic at Yale School of Art until 2021. She has shown at The Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The 2014 Whitney Biennial, The Program at ReMap in Athens, Greece, Kadel Willborn in Karlsruhe, Germany and many others. In 2013 she received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She is a frequent guest lecturer at many schools across the country, including, in the past few years, Princeton University, The University of Texas at Austin, Cranbrook, University of Alabama, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Low Residency Program, and Columbia University. She is represented by Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago and Rachel Uffner Gallery in NYC. In 2021 she opened a mid-career survey show at the Blaffer in Houston, Texas, called Comic Relief and accompanied by a monograph.

Deborah Dancy is a multi-media artist. Her paintings, drawings, digital photography and small sculptures examine the shifting intersection between abstraction and representation.

Dancy has been Guggenheim Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA awardee. Her work is in numerous collections including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. She is represented by N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon Gallery, Denver and Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta. Her most recent solo exhibition was at Marcia Wood gallery in 2022, Body of Evidence and she has an upcoming solo exhibition at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in NY, NY in 2024.