Painter EJ Hauser lives and works in Brooklyn and is represented by Derek Eller Gallery and Philipp Haverkampf Gallery. Her paintings are graphic yet open to interpretation, teetering between iconography and something familiar but abstract. This imagery shifts between omnivorous references both ancient and current, her paintings are mysterious talisman, employing buzzing pallets and marks that dance. Stuttering lines form a visual code like musical notes, which coalesce with atmospheric layers to create ineffable messages. Her work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions in New York and in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Frieze, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. EJ is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University in the Graduate Department.

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.