Ancart

Harold Ancart (b. 1980) is a Belgian born, New York-based artist who works in various media including painting, drawing, prints, photography and sculpture. In his art, Ancart depicts subjects that naturally invite contemplation such as the horizon, clouds, flowers, flames, and architectural forms.

Bob Nickas, a writer and curator based in New York, has organized more than 120 exhibitions since 1984. His books include Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (2014), and four collections of his writing and interviews: Komplaint Dept. (2018), The Dept. of Corrections (2016), Theft Is Vision (2007), Live Free or Die (2000). Most recently, he has contributed essays to Vija Celmins (2018), Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s (2018), Robert Grosvenor (2020), and Josh Smith: Emo Jungle (David Zwirner Books, 2020).

Laura McLean-Ferris is chief curator at Swiss Institute, New York, and a writer. She has curated numerous projects with artists including Cally Spooner, Olga Balema, Aria Dean, Irena Haiduk, Nancy Lupo, Jill Mulleady, and Studio for Propositional Cinema. She regularly contributes to Artforum, ArtReview, Art-Agenda, Even, frieze, Mousse, and Flash Art International, and has authored catalogue essays for monographs on the work of Nina Beier, Anna-Sophie Berger, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Deimantas Narkevicius, Rachel Rose, and Hayley Tompkins. She was the recipient of the 2015 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, and her short-form collection, The Lacustrine, was published in 2016.