Polina Barskaya (b. 1984, Cherkassy, USSR) received an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, and a BA from Hunter College, NY. Barskaya received an Artist Fellowship in Painting from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in 2021, and an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023, 2022, and 2020. Recent exhibitions include Taymour Grahne Projects, London; Althuis Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam; DC […]

Emerson Bowyer is Searle Curator, Painting and Sculpture of Europe, at the Art Institute of Chicago. A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century French and British art, he has previously worked at the Frick Collection, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. His exhibitions include David d’Angers: Making the […]

Sasha Davis is Executive Director of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation, the historic home and studio of American sculptor Chaim Gross (1902-91) and his wife Renee (1909-2005). Davis previously held internships at MoMA, MoMA PS1, and the Newark Museum. Davis received a BA from New York University in Art History with a minor in Studio […]

Nathaniel Mary Quinn‘s practice operates within a world of visual metaphor, in which identifiable forms and features are mobilized to reveal aspects of character. Images taken from online sources, fashion magazines, and family photographs come together to form composite portraits that are at once neo-Dada and adamantly realist, evoking the intimacy and intensity of a […]

Ann Reynolds teaches art history at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently completing a book entitled Imagining an Altogether, a history of intergenerational relationships among New York artists and writers that were shaped by shared, if heterogeneous, commitments to Surrealism and its legacy, primarily through a love of film. She is also the author of Robert […]