ROY DOWELL was born in Bronxville, New York in 1951. He received an MFA at CalArts in 1975. His work is included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Berkeley Museum of Art, Oakland Musuem, Jumex Collection, Eli Broad, and many other significant institutional and private collections. In 1979 he founded the graduate program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles and still serves as chair of the department. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. RICHARD KALINA was born in New York City in 1946 and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. His works are included in museum collections such as the Arkansas Art Center, Grey Art Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, National Museum of American Art, Norton Gallery, Parrish Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Rutgers University Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum and Yale University Art Gallery. Richard Kalina is a well-known art critic, serving as a Contributing Editor at Art in America. Kalina is Professor of Art at Fordham University in New York, where he teaches studio art and art history. He lives and works in Manhattan and East Hampton, New York.