Born in 1950 in Metzingen, Germany, Wolfgang Laib originally studied medicine but became disillusioned with Western medicine and its dependency on logic and the material world. Since 1975, Laib has worked exclusively as an artist and has built an international reputation. Laib’s 2000-2003 retrospective, organized by the American Federation of the Arts, traveled to the Hirshhorn Museum; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Dallas Museum of Art; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; and Haus der Kunst, Munich. Subsequently, Laib presented museum solo exhibitions at the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2004); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2005-2006); MUAC (Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City (2009), among others.

New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic Ann McCoy is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She lectured at the Yale School of Drama Design Department for 10 years, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College for 20 years. Ann’s work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and others. In 2019, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Prix de Rome in 1989, and a D.A.A.D. Kunstler Berliner Award in 1977.  Ann McCoy worked with Prof. C.A. Meier, Jung’s heir apparent for twenty-five years in Zurich. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich and in Rome at the Vatican Library.