Nancy Shaver, Sterrett Smith, and Max Goldfarb with Phong H. Bui

Nancy Shaver is an artist who lives and works in Jefferson, NY. Nancy has shown in New York City for more than 40 years. Her work was included in a 2015 exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor), in VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel at La Biennale di Venezia in 2017, and in two national group shows: Outliers and American Vanguard Art, curated by Lynne Cook at the National Gallery and One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, curated by Helen Molesworth LA MOCA. A co-founder of Hudson, New York’s Incident Report, Shaver has been teaching in the Bard College MFA program for more than 20 years.

Sterrett Smith graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a BFA in painting in 1980, where she studied with Hassel Smith, Franklin Williams, Robert Hudson, and Angela Davis. She also studied in San Francisco with Helen Palmer, Diane DiPrima, Ian Grand, and Charles Ponce in the training of the intuition, the Kabbalah, and Somatic Knowledge. She was part of the group of artists and poets in Jess and Robert Duncan’s household and Diane DiPrima’s circle. She has been painting and making sculptures ever since. She lives with her husband, the writer David Levi Strauss, in the Hudson Valley, where she is currently working in the studio, and growing a wide variety of fruits, berries and greens.

Max Goldfarb is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University at Buffalo Department of Art. Goldfarb has completed past works with support from the Harpo Foundation, the Elizabeth Graham Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the Experimental Television Center. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in venues including Sculpture Center, NY; Stadsgalerij, NL; Western Front, BC; White Columns, NY and The Drawing Center, NY. Goldfarb is co-author of Architectural Inventions (Laurence King Publishing UK), an archive of contemporary visionary architectural drawings.

Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder and Publisher/Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects.