Katherine Bradford is a painter with studios in Brooklyn and in Maine. This season she had solo shows in Tokyo (Tomio Koyama Gallery), Milan (Kaufman Repetto Gallery) and forthcoming at her New York gallery, Canada, opening October 23^rd.  She also participated in group shows at David Zwirner, Vito Schnabel Gallery and Karma among others. Awards include a Guggenheim and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship.  She has taught in the Yale MFA program and at Skowhegan. Her murals can be found in the Manhattan subway at the First Ave stop on the L line.  Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Baltimore Museum, the Musee d’Art Moderne Paris, and the Rubell Family Collection.  Katy Hessel interviewed her on her Great Woman Artists Podcast  April 8, 2025.

Eleanor Gaver studied film at NYU, worked for Beth and Scott B. then moved to L.A. Nobody was hiring female directors back then so Gaver made a biker movie and wrote scripts. Life in the Fast Lane got green lit. It starred Tea Leoni, Fairuza Balk, Noah Taylor, Patrick Dempsey. At the premiere, when Balk accidentally stabs Taylor in the head and blood spouts everywhere, half the audience ran. Alex Cox, who was sitting next to Gaver, said, “You’ll never get a better reaction than that.” But Hollywood didn’t agree. So Gaver returned to New York to make underground films.

Brook Hsu lives and works in New York and Wyoming. She received her BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale in 2016. Solo exhibitions include Gladstone Gallery, New York (2024); Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2022); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); and Bortolami, New York (2019). Group exhibitions include David Zwirner, New York; Heidi Gallery, Berlin; Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale; K11 Shanghai; Kunsthalle Zürich; Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); among others. Hsu’s work is part of the collections of X Museum, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

Josh Smith (b. 1976 Okinawa, Japan) is a New York-based artist who works with painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and artist’s books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of canvases depicting his own name, a motif that allowed him to experiment freely with abstraction, figuration, and the expressive possibilities of painting. His work has since given way to varied imagery including grim reapers, leaves, fish, streetscapes, and palm trees that the artist has explored in series. Smith’s work engages in a celebratory and prolific project of experimentation and refinement—upending the conventions of painting while simultaneously commanding a deep awareness of its history.

Susan C. Larsen, Ph.D., is an art historian, former curator at the Whitney Museum, critic and Founding Director Emeritus of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. In 1981, she and her late husband, Lauri Robert Martin, came upon a work by Jon Serl during a chance visit to a downtown emporium, The Chimes, in Lake Elsinore, California. Serl had a local following but was unknown to art audiences outside of California. The couple spent several years documenting and photographing Serl's oeuvre.  A fulfilling friendship ensued. Susan is completing a memoir titled If We Could Fly of their time and adventures with Serl based on taped conversations.