David Byrd

Jason Andrew is a Founding Partner at Artist Estate Studio—a consultancy agency that recognizes the importance of promotion and preservation in an ever-changing art world dominated by taste and tastemakers. He is a leader in the field of editing and implementation of catalogue raisonnés. Guarding against special interests in any particular style or genre, his curatorial projects bridge gaps left in art history and reflect the creative imagination through painting, poetry, and performance. As an independent scholar and curator his projects include recent historic retrospectives of the work of Janice Biala, Jack Tworkov, Elizabeth Murray, and Edith Schloss among others.

Robert Cozzolino is an independent curator, art historian, and critic based in Minneapolis. He curates collaboratively, in partnership with artists, colleagues, and broad communities. Although he has worked on topics from the 19th and 20th centuries, he regularly works with contemporary artists in examining history. He considers himself a curator of fluid time, not bound to the labels and bins imposed on the field. He has curated over 40 exhibitions, including Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, World War I and American Art, Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, David Lynch: The Unified Field, and many others.

Jessica Farrell is a painter who grew up in the Midwest. She spent her early adulthood living in New York City and working in commercial photography. In 1989, Farrell moved to a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains. For twenty years, she partnered with her husband, creating hundreds of pieces of obsessive art furniture from natural materials. Her recent paintings explore the people and places in her community. In addition to her art practice, Farrell manages the David Byrd Catalogue Raisonné. Knowing Byrd inspired her to create paintings about her family, mental illness, and peer recovery advocates in her community.

Seattle-born artist Jody Isaacson lives and works in Sidney Center, New York. She received her BFA from the University of Wisconsin in 1981 and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 1983. Recent solo shows include: Shhhhh, KIPNZ, Walton, New York (2023); Absence of Presence, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA (2021); The Feeling of the Artist’s Hand, Franklin Stage Company, Franklin, NY (2019); and Form and Memory, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, Minnesota (2015). She is the executor of the David Byrd Estate, an artist she met a mile from her home in 2012. The Estate recently published the online David Byrd Catalog Raisonné.

Independent critic, curator, and writer Lyle Rexer is the author of The Critical Eye: 15 Pictures to Understand Photography (Intellect Ltd 2019), The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography (Aperture 2009), and Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The New Wave in Old Processes, (Harry N. Abrams 2002) and others. He has published hundreds of catalog essays and articles on art, architecture, and photography and contributed to such publications as The New York Times, Harper’s, Art in America, among others. He has lectured at many institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University, among others, and he teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate programs at SVA.