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Betsy Sussler

Betsy Sussler attended Newcomb, the women’s college of Tulane University in New Orleans and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in 1974. She co-founded BOMB Magazine in 1981 to publish conversations between artists and writers that reflected the way they spoke about the work among themselves and has been its Editor in Chief ever since. Sussler has edited five anthologies: BOMB Interviews, City Lights (1991); BOMB: Speak Art! (1997), Speak Fiction and Poetry! (1998) and Speak Theater and Film! (1999), published by Gordon and Breach; and The Author Interviews (2014) published by Soho Press.  Station of the Birds is her first novel, written in the mid-1990s. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her two felines, Calliope and Woody Ray. 

Michael David

Michael David lives and works in New York. He has exhibited most recently with solo exhibitions at Private Public Gallery, Hudson (2025) and Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta (2024). He has exhibited internationally since 1981, first with the renowned Sidney Janis and then with M. Knoedler & Co., Kasmin Gallery in London and he has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen. David has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the Edward Albee Foundation.

Katherine Bradford

Guggenheim Award winner Katherine Bradford (1942) is a New York based painter.  She is best known for her large paintings of swimmers under dramatic skies of planets and stars. In her 40’s she moved from her home in Maine to New York City bringing her school age twins with her as a single mother. She taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1997-2012) and was Senior Critic in the Yale MFA program (2016-2017). Now in her 80’s she paints full time in a studio in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn where she was among the first group of artists to move there. This past season she has had solo shows at her New York gallery, Canada, at Hyundai Gallery in Seoul Korea, and at Haverkampf Gallery in Berlin. Museum survey shows include the Portland Museum of Art, the Frye Museum in Seattle, Modern Museum at Fort Worth Texas and Kunsthaus Graz Contemporary Museum, Austria.
Groups shows include David Zwirner, the ICA Boston, and Anton Kern Gallery. She is also represented by Kaufman Repetto in Milan, Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and Matthew Brown in LA.  Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in DC, and the Menil Family Collection in Texas, among others.
Her glass mosaic murals can be found in the L line subway stop at First Ave in New York City.

Melissa Attebury

Melissa Attebury was appointed Director of Music at Trinity Church in December of 2023, as the first woman in this role in Trinity’s long history. Previously, she served as Director of Music Education and Outreach, a program she built upon since 2011, serving over 1200 school-age children in the public schools, as well as training many young singers in the Trinity community as director of the Trinity Youth Chorus. During her next chapter at Trinity, she will continue her work in music education, creating educational offerings with Trinity’s collaborative partners and fostering the next generation of young musicians. She is an advocate of lesser-known composers and creating space for new works and revitalizing a culture of congregational singing within the Trinity community. Attebury serves as principal conductor of the Trinity Choir, NOVUS, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra.

Roberto Lingard

Roberto Lingard is a curious man. Cooking since the age of 8, he's founded and constantly curates what he describes as the only gastro-endemic experience in Mexico, where his house, a design work of art tucked in the middle of the woods, becomes a curated experience where culture, food, and history give birth to Cubo. He's hosted over 50 different top chefs from all around the world and more than 5000 guests in the last 7 years, making sure everyone feels at home. With a background in arts, cooking, entertainment, and many more, Cubo's experience is a reflection of who he is, where he comes from, and where he envisions the future for him, his family, and his community.

Todd Bienvenu

Todd Bienvenu is a prolific, seriously brilliant painter whose uniquely prolific brilliance is most exuberantly expressed when he succeeds in keeping his creative seriousness in check. At times, this regard entails cheesiness, cheekiness, tongue-in-cheek-ness, or simply butt cheeks. Bienvenu has shown extensively worldwide and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Nick McPhail

Nick McPhail (b. 1982, Laingsburg, MI) is an artist whose work spans painting, drawing, sculpture, collage and installation. He is known for vivid landscapes, inventive experiments with perspective, and explorations of light, space and color that utilize multiple mediums. He has exhibited internationally, including recent solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, and San Francisco, and his works are held in collections worldwide. McPhail lives and works in Los Angeles.
 

Julia Garcia

Julia García (b. 1992, Pompano Beach, FL) uses a collage-like application of acrylic and ink onto wet raw canvas, where water acts as a collaborator, introducing an unpredictable external force which determines the outcome alongside the artist’s hand. With a practice that moves across painting and drawing, García’s work is unified by the compositional relationship between material and visible substrate, which proposes a state of tension between openness and resolution, information and exposure. Julia received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 2014 and her MFA in 2016 from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art. 
 

Andrew Brischler

Andrew Brischler makes paintings and drawings that explore queer identity through the lens of American popular culture. Rooted in drawing, his practice reinterprets pop-cultural ephemera into graphic compositions with bold, saturated color. Typography and graphic design are central to his work, which often evokes the aesthetics of vintage book covers and movie posters. Drawing from personal archives and historical references, Brischler investigates the tension between visibility and erasure in queer representation and how collective media consumption shapes both autobiography and identity.

Rebekah Kim

Rebekah Kim is the founder and director of Picture Theory, a contemporary art gallery in New York focused on artists engaging with materiality, technology, and evolving cultural narratives. Since founding the gallery in 2023, she has built a program that bridges emerging voices with historic practices, emphasizing both critical discourse and market development. Picture Theory is establishing a distinct voice that balances curatorial vision with the realities of building a sustainable gallery model.