Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. She specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century French art and in contemporary art. Her books include Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror (Yale University Press, 1999; EbookA&AePortal, 2022), Chardin Material (Sternberg Press, 2011), and The Painter’s Touch: Boucher Chardin Fragonard (Princeton University Press, 2018; paperback ed., 2022). She also co-authored Interiors and Interiority, (De Gruyter, 2015); Painting Beyond Itself: A Medium in the Post- Medium Condition (Sternberg Press, 2016), and Drawing: The Invention
of the Modern Medium (Harvard Art Museums, 2017; EbookA&Ae Portal, 2018). She is the author of numerous essays on contemporary artists. Her most recent work includes articles on eighteenth-century French artist, Madeleine François Basseporte, and an essay on the Swedish painter, Hilma af Klint.
Seth Cameron
Seth Cameron (b. 1982, South Carolina) is a painter, writer, and filmmaker. Treating painting as a site of provisional meaning, Cameron anchors his practice in the discipline's resistance to language-its refusal to resolve into the narratives that seek to contain it. Across genres and traditions, he places this resistance in counterpoint with fable, autofiction, and video essay, positioning painting and narrative as mutually resistant forms. In the encounter between these modes, the personal and the political emerge not as separate domains but as a single current: intertwined, contingent, and continually revised. From 2004 to 2017, Cameron led The Bruce High Quality Foundation, a collective that reimagined institutional critique, collaborative practice, and experimental arts education in the post-9/11 era. Recent solo exhibitions include The Stranger and A Great Man (both 2026), Entrance Gallery, New York; Storyteller (2024), Seven Sisters Gallery, Houston; and The Tourist (2024), Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami. His work has appeared in major institutional exhibitions through The Bruce High Quality Foundation, including Greater New York at MoMA PSl (2010), the Whitney Biennial (2010), Dublin Contemporary (2011), the Lyon Biennale (2013), and the Sundance Film Festival (2011). The Foundation was the subject of a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 2013. Beyond his studio practice, Cameron has played a sustained role in experimental arts education, teaching at The , Cgoper Union, serving as Critic-in-Residence at MICA's Hoffberger School of Painting, directing the Children's Museum , o[the Arts (2020-2023), and leading The Bruce High Quality Foundation (2009-2017). He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2004.
Gabby Collns-Fernández
Gaby Collins-Fernández is an artist living and working in New York City. Her work has been shown in the United States and internationally, including at Rachel Uffner Gallery, Nina Johnson Gallery, anonymous gallery, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama and El Museo del Barrio in New York. Discussion of her work has appeared in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail and artcritical, and on the video interview series, Gorky’s Granddaughter. She is a recipient of residencies at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Marble House Project (Dorset, VT), and the Elizabeth Murray Art Residency (Granville, NY), and of a 2013 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Art Award. She was a 2023-4 resident of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Collins-Fernández is also a writer whose texts have appeared in Cultured Magazine, The Miami Rail, and The Brooklyn Rail. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College (BA) and the Yale School of Art (MFA, Painting/Printmaking). She is a founder and publisher of the annual magazine Precog and a co-director of the artist-run art and music initiative BombPop!Up. Collins-Fernández currently teaches at Pratt Institute.
Kern Samuel
Kern Samuel (b. 1990, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago) employs painting as a means to explore material, process, and labor. Samuel employs tactile techniques such as sewing, quilting, dyeing, folding, and embroidery to create his geometric and text-based compositions. Additionally, he draws heavily on the linguistic and cultural nuances that emerge in everyday life, using them as a conceptual and visual framework.
Jason Stopa
Jason Stopa is a painter and writer living in Brooklyn. He thinks of painting as a language with which he explores the material nature of paint as a form of content, questioning the relationship between color, light, and space. His production process involves layers of oil paint on canvas, using large brush strokes and transparent washes, highlighting the physical presence and significance of the painting as well as its materiality. Recent solo exhibitions include those in Paris, Seoul, Istanbul, New York and LA. His paintings have been reviewed in Artforum, Galerie Magazine, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Criterion and Vogue. He is a contributing writer to Artforum, BOMB, Momus, and The Brooklyn Rail, among other art journals. Stopa has a BFA from Indiana University, an MFA from Pratt Institute, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at FIT in New York.
Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson (she/her) makes art from direct observation, foregrounding the firsthand experience of noticing, describing, and learning from the physical world. She works primarily in painting, but also in sculpture and printmaking. Halvorson received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007, her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2003, and attended Yale Norfolk in 2002. She is the recipient of several international residencies and fellowships, including a US Fulbright to Vienna, Austria; the Harriet Hale Woolley Award at the Fondation des Etats-Unis in Paris, France; the first American pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome at the Villa Medici; and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Halvorson's work is represented by Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, NY, and Peter Freeman, Paris. In 2021 she presented a solo exhibition of site responsive work at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, NM, where she was the Museum's first artist in residence. Her work and practice have been written about widely in online and print periodicals such as The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, ArtForum, and Hyperallergic, and have appeared in compilation books such as Painting Now by Suzanne Hudson, Vitamin P2 edited by Barry Schwabsky, and Prints and Their Makers by Phil Sanders. Halvorson is a subject of Art21's documentary series New York Close Up. Since 2016, Halvorson is Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University. She has also taught at The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, The Cooper Union, Princeton University, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Columbia University, and Yale University.
David Humphrey
David Humphrey has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psychosocially engaged paintings. Over this time he has continued to transform images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary. Mixing various representational schema with improvisational abstraction, he tells stories of imaginative projections crashing into the real.
Humphrey (b. 1955) has a BFA from MICA and an MA from NYU. He has been the subject of 44 solo exhibitions including those at McKee Gallery, NY; Sikkema Jenkins, NY; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami; and Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati. Humphrey has had five solo exhibitions at Fredericks & Freiser, the last in 2025. His work is in collections including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as well as the Saatchi Gallery, London. An Anthology of his art writing, Blind Handshake, was published by Periscope in 2009. He currently teaches in the Columbia U. MFA program. Humphrey was awarded the Rome Prize in 2008 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002.