Alex Kwartler (b. 1979, New York, NY) received his MFA from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and his BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY. Kwartler has mounted four solo exhibitions at Magenta Plains. He has exhibited his work at The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI; 47 Canal, New York, NY; Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO, MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; White Columns, New York, NY; Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Martos Gallery, New York, NY; Petzel Gallery, New York, NY. Kwartler was artist-in-residence at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX in Spring 2017. The artist lives and works in New York, NY. Image courtesy of the Artist and Magenta Plains, New York.

Will Heinrich was born in New York and spent his early childhood in Japan. He reviews gallery shows, museum exhibitions, and art fairs for the New York Times, as well as writing artist obituaries, and has also for the New Yorker, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Art in America, Jewish Currents and the Nation. His novel The King’s Evil, published by Scribner in 2003 and winner of a PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship in 2004, has just been reissued by Thousand Horsemen Press in London.