Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (born UK, 1945) is a painter who
also writes about art and related topics. His work
has been exhibited in New York, where he has been
represented by Alexander Gray since 1970, and may be
found in public collections including the Albright-Knox
Museum, Buffalo; MoCA, Los Angeles; and MoCA,
Miami. In 2010 he and Rebecca Norton formed the
collaboration Awkward x 2 to make paintings together
and otherwise produce collective work. Gilbert-Rolfe is
the author of two collections of essays (the second of
which contains a reprint of his 1986 essay about Mary
Boochever), a book about beauty and the sublime,
and another written together with Frank Gehry. He has
written numerous essays for journals and catalogues.
His work has received several awards over the years,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, NEA
Fellowships for both painting and criticism, and the
CAA’s Frank Jewitt Mather Award for Criticism. He has
lived in California since 1980, where he teaches in and
is chair of the graduate program in art at Art Center,
Pasadena.
Philip Vanderhyden
Artist Philip Vanderhyden lives and works in New
York. Born in Wisconsin in 1978, he earned a BFA in
painting from the University of Wisconsin in 2001
and an MFA from Northwestern University in 2004.
Vanderhyden has exhibited extensively nationally,
and his work has been reviewed in Art in America,
Artnet and Artslant, among other publications. He
recently concluded a solo exhibition of his work at
Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, and he curated the
retrospective of Pictures Generation artist Gretchen
Bender.
David Shapiro
Poet David Shapiro (born 1947) grew up in Deal, New
Jersey, in an artistic family. Trained as a classical violinist,
he played with a number of orchestras. Shapiro
also came to poetry early, publishing his first collection
of poems, January (1965), when he was 18. Shapiro’s
subsequent volumes of poetry include Poems
from Deal (1969), A Man Holding an Acoustic Panel
(1971), The Page-Turner (1972), Lateness (1977), To
an Idea (1983), House (Blown Apart) (1988), After a
Lost Original (1994), and New and Selected Poems
(1965Ð2006). The author of studies on artists such as
Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, and Piet Mondrian, Shapiro
has taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College,
Princeton University, and the Cooper Union School of
Architecture. He is a tenured professor of art history
at William Paterson University.
Susan Stoops
Susan L. Stoops, Curator of Contemporary Art
at the Worcester Art Museum since 1999, was
appointed Interim Chief Curator in 2012. She is an
authority on international art of the past decade
with a special interest in feminist practices. Recent
exhibitions include projects with Carrie Moyer,
Charline von Heyl, Rona Pondick, Chen Qiulin,
Yun-Fei Ji, Martha Rosler, Louise Bourgeois, David
Thorpe, Lily van der Stokker, Tony Feher, and Jim
Hodges. From 1984Ð1999, Stoops served as Curator
at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University,
where she organized More Than Minimal: Feminism
and Abstraction in the ‘70s (1996). Stoops received
a BFA from Syracuse University and a MA
in Art History from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.