Based in Toronto, interdisciplinary artist Alan Belcher‘s work has been shown widely, both nationally and internationally, at venues such as the The Power Plant (Toronto), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the New Museum (New York), Urbi and Orbi (Paris), 20th San Paulo Bienal Internacionale, Galerie Hans Mayer (Düsseldorf), Documenta 8 (Kassel), and the Hamburg Kunstverein (Hamburg). Belcher was a co-founder and a co-director of Gallery Nature Morte (New York, 1982-1988).

Gil Blank is a photographer and writer. Most recently, his photographs have been exhibited at PS1 (New York), Paula Cooper Gallery (New York), Galerie Rodolphe Janssen (Brussels), LaMontagne Gallery (Boston), and CB Gallery (Tokyo). He is a contributing editor of Art On Paper magazine, and was founding editor of Influence magazine. He is currently at work on the catalog for John Baldessari’s Raised Eyebrows and Furrowed Foreheads (forthcoming: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, spring 2009), and a collaboration with Collier Schorr for In Numbers: Serial Artist Editions, 1955-2008 (PPP Editions, autumn 2009).

Jennifer Bolande is a professor of new genres in the Department of Art at The University of California at Los Angeles. Exhibiting prolifically, Bolande’s work has been shown at institutions such as Galerie Sophia Ungers (Cologne), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Eighth Biennale of Sydney (Australia), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), and Lowen-Palais (Berlin). Bolande has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Tesuque Foundation, and The Canadian Council for the Arts.

Bob Nickas has curated a number of groundbreaking exhibitions, including Pictures of the Real World (in Real Time) (Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Le Consortium, Dijon, 1994), Lee Lozano, Drawn From Life: 1961-1971 and Music is a Better Noise (PS1, New York, 2004 and 2006). He was Editor of index magazine between 1996-2000 and Curatorial Advisor at PS1 Contemporary Art Center (New York) between 2004-2007. Author of numerous critical texts and reviews, Nickas has recently completed a major monograph on contemporary abstract painting (forthcoming: Phaidon Press, 2009).