Jack Shear is a photographer, curator, and art collector living and working in Spencertown, NY. He previously collaborated with Anne Philbin on Drawn from Artists’ Collections, on view at The Drawing Center from Apr 24–Jun 12, 1999, and co-curated Twice Drawn at the Tang Teaching Museum with Director Ian Berry. Shear’s collection has previously been on view in the exhibition Borrowed Light: Selections from the Jack Shear Collection at the Tang Teaching Museum. Most recently, his drawings were on view at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. His own photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Shear is also President of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, and serves on the Drawings & Prints Committee at the Museum of Modern Art.

Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A critically-acclaimed twenty-year survey of the artist’s work, All At Once, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2015. Shechet has designed and curated exhibitions including Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, on view at The Frick Collection, New York (2016–17), and From Here on Now at The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2016–17). Her ambitious large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed in Madison Square Park, New York (2018–19). Shechet’s first solo show at Pace Gallery, Skirts, opened in New York in February 2020. The monograph Arlene Shechet: Skirts (Pace Publishing, 2020) includes an essay by scholar Rachel Silveri and interviews with the artist by Deborah Solomon and Michaëla Mohrmann. Shechet currently has work on view in New York at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jewish Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. Upcoming projects include exhibitions in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, as well as a historical and contemporary installation that Shechet has designed for the Harvard Art Museums and a permanent sculpture commission for the Stuart Collection at the University of California San Diego.

Writer and curator Jarrett Earnest has contributed criticism and long form interviews to publications including What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics (David Zwirner Books, 2018), The Brooklyn Rail, Vulture, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Review of Books, Art in America, Art Practical, Riot of Perfume, SFAQ, The Miami Rail, Cultured, Elephant, New York Magazine, diSONARE, and many exhibition catalogs. He has recently curated exhibitions including The Young and the Evil at David Zwirner, NY (February 21–April 13, 2019) and Closer as Love: Polaroids 1993–2007: Breyer P-Orridge at Nina Johnson, Miami (October 3–November 23, 2019). Earnest was also the editor of Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings 1988–2017 by Peter Schjeldahl (Abrams, June 2019), TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Artist Interviews from the Brooklyn Rail (with Lucas Zwirner; David Zwirner Books, 2017), and FORBILL, ANYTHING: Words and Images for Bill Berkson (with Isabelle Sorrell; Pressed Wafer, 2015). Some of Earnest’s most recent writing includes “Excerpt from Drag Diary” in Ursula (Issue 6, Spring 2020); “Willi Smith in Pieces” in Willi Smith: Street Couture (Rizzoli, March 2020); and a contribution to the accompanying publication for The Young and Evil: Queer Modernism in New York 1930–1955, entitled “History of Intimacy” (David Zwirner Books, 2020).