Gordon Gilbert was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Montreal, San Salvador, Mexico City, and Miami. Gilbert received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami in 1968 and his Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Miami in 1975. He is a registered architect in New York, Florida, New Jersey, Virginia. and Pennsylvania. He founded his architectural office, Gordon Gilbert Architect, in New York City in 1984. He was a founding member of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture, and has developed conceptual and experimental work, including such projects as "Architecture of the Night," which was published and exhibited internationally. His most recent book, "Transparent Architecture," demonstrates the relationship of Gilbert's experimental, conceptual, and constructed work.
"Michael Hettich was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1953 and grew up in New York City and its suburbs. He has lived in upstate New York, Colorado, Northern Florida, Vermont, Miami, and Black Mountain, North Carolina, where he now lives with his wife, Colleen. He has published over a dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and his work has appeared widely in journals and anthologies.
Michael Hettich’s awards include several Florida Individual Artists Fellowships, a Florida Book Award, The Tampa Review Prize in Poetry, the David Martinson–Meadow Hawk Prize, and the 2020 Lena M. Shull Book Award. He often collaborates with visual artists, musicians, and fellow writers.
He is married to Colleen and has two adult children, Matthew and Caitlin, and a grandson, Owen Sharpe." -- Biographical description from https://michaelhettich.com/
Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., is an art historian, independent curator, and Fulbright grantee who has taught, lectured, and published extensively both in the United States and internationally. She earned her doctorate from the City University of New York in 1997, with her dissertation titled “Ana Mendieta in Iowa (1969-1978): A Critical Study.” Dr. Herzberg’s research addresses a wide range of cross-disciplinary issues, focusing on artistic processes and the thematic and conceptual concerns of contemporary art. Over her career, she has curated more than thirty-five exhibitions featuring renowned artists such as Carlos Alfonzo, Navjot Altaf, Mónica Bengoa, Máximo Corválan-Pincheira, Leandro Erlich, Paz Errazuriz, Magdalena Fernández, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Leandro Katz, Wifredo Lam, Iván Navarro, Nela Ochoa, Pepón Osorio, Catalina Parra, Liliana Porter, Raquel Rabinovich, Lotty Rosenfeld, Franco Mondini-Ruiz, Juan Sánchez, and Monika Weiss.
