Erica Baum (b. 1961, New York) lives and works in New York, NY. Baum received her MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT (1994) and her BA from Barnard College, New York, NY (1984). Recent solo exhibitions include Off The Cuff, Bureau, New York, NY (2024); Off the Hook, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany (2024); the bite in the ribbon, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris, France (2022); A Method of a Cloak, Square is the Chatter, Markus Lüttgen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2020); A Method of a Cloak, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany (2020). Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; among others. Baum will be the subject of a one-person museum exhibition, the bite in the ribbon—a paper show, at the George Eastman Museum this fall (2025).

Mary Lum (b. 1951, St. Cloud, MN) lives and works in North Adams, MA.  Lum received her BFA from the University of Michigan, and her MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.  Solo exhibitions include include temporary arrangements, Yancey Richardson Gallery (2024); The Moving Parts &, Harvard Radcliffe Institute (2023); Assembly: Lorem Epsom, Mass MoCA (2017-present); Shifting Perspective, Savannah College of Art and Design; New Work, St. John’s College, Oxford.  Lum has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. Her artists books include, The Final Results of Psychoanalytic Treatment (1991), 64 Scenes (2005), Plays Modern (2016) and Moving Parts (&) (2023).  Lum is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York. 

Photographer Lee Mary Manning (b. 1972, Alton, Illinois) models a method of close and care-filled looking in carefully arranged juxtapositions of 35mm analog prints. Taking familiar objects and scenes as their subject matter, Manning’s photos picture people, nature, the street, and everything in between. Conceptualizing “paying attention as a practice of being alive,” the artist insists on the importance and meaning of quiet moments and humdrum things that might initially seem unremarkable.

Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. Since 2022, she has been the Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she organizes the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.