Elaine Reichek (b. 1943) lives and works in New York. She received a BA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from Yale University, and has exhibited extensively in the US and abroad, including at Secession, Vienna; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Jewish Museum, New York; and elsewhere. Thread has been a core element in Reichek’s work since the early 1970s, and she was a pioneer among her generation in rethinking the role of craft in the fine arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Something Betwixt and Between — Matisse & Bloomsbury at Seven Sisters, Houston (2025); Frock-Conscious at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Archival Correspondents at McClain Gallery, Houston (2022); and MATERIAL GIRL at Marinaro, New York (2022).

Elizabeth Buhe is a widely-published critic and art historian based in New York. Her writing addresses expanded modernisms and spatial ontologies in Europe and North America in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Elizabeth has taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art and at Fordham University, and is a contributing critic for the Brooklyn Rail and Studio International. Her writing has earned support from the Fulbright Program, the Luce Foundation, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute, The Courtauld, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, among others. She is currently completing a book titled Beside Painting on abstract painting and perception.