John Yau is a poet and art critic who has been publishing art since 1978. After serving as the arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail (2007-11), he began writing regularly for Hyperallergic in 2012. He was the recipient of the 2018 Jackson Poetry Prize. In 2021, Yau was awarded the Rabkin Prize for excellence in visual arts journalism. His books of art criticism include In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol and A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns, as well as monographs on Wifredo Lam, Thomas Nozkowski, Joe Brainard, Catherine Murphy, A.R. Penck, Richard Artschwager, Pat Steir, Liu Xiaodong, and Kim Tschang-yeul.
Christina Tenaglia (b. Philadelphia, PA) is an artist living and working in Saugerties, New York. She received an MFA from Yale School of Art and was awarded fellowships for residencies at MacDowell, I-Park, and Catwalk. She is a recipient of the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, a NJ State Arts Council Fellowship Award for Sculpture, and a purchase award grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York and elsewhere, including Thomas Park Gallery, New York and Seoul; the Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY with River Valley Arts Collective; NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY with Heroes Gallery; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; Hesse Flatow, New York; LABspace, Hillsdale, NY; Tappeto Volante Gallery, Brooklyn; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Opalka Gallery, Albany; NY, Kaatsbaan Cultural Park, Tivoli, NY; Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; The Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY; and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ among others. She has been reviewed and profiled in Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Chronogram, Two Coats of Paint and other publications.
Adrian Meraz (b. Los Angeles, CA), is a New York artist based in Saugerties. Meraz has had solo exhibitions at Black Ball Projects: Viewing Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Leo Koenig (2-person). His work has also been in several group exhibitions including LABspace, Collar Works, Opalka Gallery, and 601Artspace. Meraz received a BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University, School of Art/Sculpture. He was awarded the California Community Fellowship Foundation Grant.
