Tory Fair‘s iterative sculptures, drawings, and photographs often feature heaps, layers, and multiplicities that blur the finite and infinite, as loss of singularity becomes an accumulation of trajectories. For three decades, she has explored how the literalness of materials may be transformed to highlight the gap between the tangible and intangible, between physical perception and potential… Read more »
Sam Redman is a Professor in the Department of History, at the University of Massachusetts. He specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. with a focus on cultural, intellectual, and social history. Redman is the author of three books and numerous shorter essays. His books include Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in… Read more »
Gwynne Ryan is the founder and Senior Conservator of CAS Conservation, LLC and serves as a consultant for the Preservation Department at Urban Arts Projects (UAP). Her specialization is in the conservation of contemporary art and large-scale outdoor sculpture with a research focus on the dynamics of collaboration between conservators and artists. Gwynne received her… Read more »
Jonathan Allen is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, collage, video, and performance. He often collaborates with poets and choreographers and regularly curates art exhibitions at a community center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Allen has exhibited extensively in New York, in both private galleries and non-profit art spaces, and has been awarded residencies at the… Read more »